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Pinguinus impennis (Great auk)
Taxonomy
Alca impennis was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is the type species of Pinguinus.
It was recombined as Plautus impennis by Hay (1902) and Hay (1902); it was recombined as Pinguinus impennis by Hay (1930), Weigel (1958), Jordan and Olson (1982), Mourer-Chauvire (1999), Smith (2011), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Kilmer and Steadman (2016).
It was recombined as Plautus impennis by Hay (1902) and Hay (1902); it was recombined as Pinguinus impennis by Hay (1930), Weigel (1958), Jordan and Olson (1982), Mourer-Chauvire (1999), Smith (2011), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Kilmer and Steadman (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Alca impennis Linnaeus |
| 1902 | Plautus impennis Hay p. 255 |
| 1930 | Pinguinus impennis Hay p. 343 |
| 1933 | Alca impennis Lambrecht p. 551 |
| 1958 | Pinguinus impennis Weigel p. 215 |
| 1967 | Alca impennis Greenway p. 271 |
| 1974 | Alca impennis Violani p. 49 |
| 1982 | Pinguinus impennis Jordan and Olson |
| 1999 | Pinguinus impennis Mourer-Chauvire p. 273 |
| 2002 | Alca impennis Mlikovsky p. 139 |
| 2011 | Pinguinus impennis Smith p. 30 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2014 | Pinguinus impennis del Hoyo et al. |
| 2016 | Pinguinus impennis Kilmer and Steadman p. 24 figs. 20, 21 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Pinguinus impennis Linnaeus 1758 [Great auk]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available