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Pinguinus (Great auk)
Taxonomy
Pinguinus was named by Bonnaterre (1790). It is not extant. Its type is Alca impennis.
It was synonymized subjectively with Alca by Mlikovsky (2002).
It was assigned to Alcidae by Carroll (1988); and to Alcinae by Hay (1930), Olson and Rasmussen (2001) and del Hoyo et al. (2014).
It was synonymized subjectively with Alca by Mlikovsky (2002).
It was assigned to Alcidae by Carroll (1988); and to Alcinae by Hay (1930), Olson and Rasmussen (2001) and del Hoyo et al. (2014).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1790 | Pinguinus Bonnaterre |
| 1930 | Pinguinus Hay p. 343 |
| 1988 | Pinguinus Carroll |
| 2001 | Pinguinus Olson and Rasmussen p. 278 |
| 2014 | Pinguinus del Hoyo et al. |
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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.
G. †Pinguinus Bonnaterre 1790 [Great auk]
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†Pinguinus alfrednewtoni Olson 1977
†Pinguinus impennis Linnaeus 1758 [Great auk]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available