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Eudyptes
Taxonomy
Eudyptes was named by Vieillot (1816). It is extant.
It was assigned to Spheniscinae by Simpson (1946); and to Spheniscidae by Carroll (1988), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Chávez Hoffmeister et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Spheniscinae by Simpson (1946); and to Spheniscidae by Carroll (1988), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Chávez Hoffmeister et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1816 | Eudyptes Vieillot |
| 1946 | Eudyptes Simpson p. 41 |
| 1983 | Tasidyptes van Tets and O'Connor p. 3 |
| 1988 | Eudyptes Carroll |
| 2003 | Eudyptes Worthy and Grant-Mackie p. 446 |
| 2014 | Eudyptes Chávez Hoffmeister et al. |
| 2014 | Eudyptes del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Eudyptes Clements et al. |
| 2020 | Eudyptes Worthy and Nguyen p. 88 |
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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. Eudyptes Vieillot 1816
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†Eudyptes atatu Thomas et al. 2020
†Eudyptes calauina Chávez Hoffmeister et al. 2014
Eudyptes chrysocome Forster 1781 [southern rockhopper penguin]
Eudyptes chrysocome filholi Hutton 1879
Eudyptes chrysolophus Brandt 1837 [Macaroni penguin]
Eudyptes moseleyi Matthews and Iredale 1921 [Northern rockhopper penguin]
Eudyptes pachyrhynchus Gray 1845 [Fiordland penguin]
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Invalid names: Tasidyptes hunteri van Tets and O'Connor 1983 [synonym]
Eudyptes robustus Oliver 1953 [Snares penguin]
Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch 1876 [royal penguin]
Eudyptes sclateri Buller 1888 [Erect-crested penguin]
†Eudyptes warhami Cole et al. 2019
Invalid names: Tasidyptes van Tets and O'Connor 1983 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.0 Ma
Collections (18 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Waipipian | New Zealand (North Island) | E. atatu (219829) | |
| Piacenzian | Chile | E. calauina (221049) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | New Zealand (South Island) | E. pachyrhynchus (87810) E. sp., E. pachyrhynchus (87814) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Macquarie Island) | E. filholi, E. schlegeli (194607 194611) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand (South Island) | E. pachyrhynchus (87791) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | E. ?n. sp. (194614 194616) E. pachyrhynchus (100554 194618 194619 195151) E. sp. (198227 198228) E. warhami (219828) | |
| Holocene | French Southern Territories | E. chrysocome (194621) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Tasidyptes hunteri (138319) |