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Eudyptula minor (little penguin)
Taxonomy
Aptenodytes minor was named by Forster (1781). It is extant.
It was recombined as Eudyptula minor by Fordyce (1991), Baird (1992), Tennyson and Millener (1994), Worthy (1998), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Eudyptula minor by Fordyce (1991), Baird (1992), Tennyson and Millener (1994), Worthy (1998), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
Subspecies
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1781 | Aptenodytes minor Forster |
| 1991 | Eudyptula minor Fordyce p. 1177 |
| 1992 | Eudyptula minor Baird p. 24 |
| 1994 | Eudyptula minor Tennyson and Millener |
| 1998 | Eudyptula minor Worthy p. 97 |
| 2003 | Eudyptula minor Worthy and Grant-Mackie p. 446 |
| 2014 | Eudyptula minor del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Eudyptula minor Clements et al. |
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Eudyptula minor Forster 1781 [little penguin]
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Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae Shaw 1826
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | New Zealand (North Otago) | Eudyptula minor (87789) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | New Zealand (South Island) | Eudyptula minor (87810 87814) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Victoria) | Eudyptula minor (138410) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | Eudyptula minor (100554 194616 194618 194619 195150 198088) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Eudyptula novaehollandiae (138319) |