Eudyptes
Eudyptes chrysocome
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Aves Order: Sphenisciformes Family: Spheniscidae Genus: Eudyptes Vieillot, 1816
Species
Eudyptes chrysocome Eudyptes chrysolophus Eudyptes moseleyi Eudyptes pachyrhynchus Eudyptes robustus Eudyptes schlegeli Eudyptes sclateri Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (800x1225, 139 KB) Photo of Eudyptes chrysocome (rockhopper penguin), New Island, Falkland Islands, taken January 2001 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Penguin... Binomial name Eudyptes chrysocome Forster, 1781 The Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of penguin closely related to the Macaroni Penguin. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Classes and Clades See below Male and female Superb Fairy-wren Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata (within the phylum Chordata), specifically, those chordates with backbones or spinal columns. ... “Aves” redirects here. ... This article is about penguin birds. ... This article is about penguin birds. ... Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (May 10, 1748 - 1831) was a French ornithologist. ...

The genus Eudyptes ("good diver") contains seven living species of penguins collectively known as "The Crested Penguins". It's possible that the Chatman Islands Penguin is recently exctinct. Modern genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For prehistoric genera, see Systematics Some penguins are curious. ...

Classification

ORDER SPHENISCIFORMES

• Family Spheniscidae
  • Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome
    • Northern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes (chrysocome) moseleyi
  • Fiordland Penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus
  • Snares Penguin, Eudyptes robustus
  • Royal Penguin, Eudyptes schlegeli
  • Erect-crested Penguin, Eudyptes sclateri
  • Macaroni Penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus
  • Chatham Islands Penguin, Eudyptes sp. (prehistoric?)

The Chatham Islands form is known only from subfossil bones, but may have gone extinct as late as 1872. Binomial name Eudyptes chrysocome Forster, 1781 The Southern Rockhopper Penguin or just Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, is a species of penguin closely related to the Macaroni Penguin. ... Binomial name Eudyptes pachyrhynchus G R Gray, 1845 The Fiordland Crested Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) is a penguin from New Zealand. ... Binomial name Eudyptes robustus Oliver, 1953 The Snares Penguin (Eudyptes robustus), also known as the Snares Crested Penguin and the Snares Islands Penguin, is a penguin from New Zealand. ... Binomial name Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch, 1876 The Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) inhabits the waters surrounding Antarctica. ... Binomial name Eudyptes sclateri Buller, 1888 The Erect-crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) is a penguin from New Zealand. ... Binomial name Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837) The Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) is a species of penguin closely related to the Royal Penguin It is a black and white penguin with yellow and black plumes on the top of its head. ... For a list of early taxa of birds known only from fossils, see Fossil birds. ... The Chatham Islands from space. ... Subfossil is attributed to bones or whole skeletons (and, in general all materials having living parts that can become fossil) whose fossilization process is not complete, either for lack of time or because the condition in which bones were buried were non optimal for fossilization. ... In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species. ... Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...