Eudyptes

Taxobox
name = "Eudyptes"

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = Macaroni Penguin, "Eudyptes chrysolophus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Aves
ordo = Sphenisciformes
familia = Spheniscidae
genus = "Eudyptes"
genus_authority = Vieillot, 1816
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Eudyptes chrysocome" "Eudyptes chrysolophus" "Eudyptes pachyrhynchus" "Eudyptes robustus" "Eudyptes schlegeli" "Eudyptes sclateri"

The genus "Eudyptes" ("good diver") contains six living species of penguins collectively known as crested penguins. A Chatham Islands species may have become extinct in the 19th century.

Classification

ORDER SPHENISCIFORMES
* Family Spheniscidae
** Fiordland Crested Penguin, "Eudyptes pachyrhynchus"
** Snares Crested Penguin, "Eudyptes robustus"
** Erect-crested Penguin, "Eudyptes sclateri"
** Rockhopper Penguin, "Eudyptes chrysocome"
*** Indopacific Rockhopper Penguin, "Eudyptes chrysocome filholi"
*** American Rockhopper Penguin, "Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome"
** Royal Penguin, "Eudyptes schlegeli" - possibly just a morph of "E. chrysolophus"
** 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. It appears to have been a distinct species, with a thin, slim and low bill.

pecies photographs

Photographs of adults of the extant (living) species are shown:
Royal Penguin "Eudyptes schlegeli"
Southern Rockhopper Penguin "Eudyptes chrysocome"
Fiordland Penguin "Eudyptes pachyrhynchus"
Snares Penguin "Eudyptes robustus"
Macaroni Penguin "Eudyptes chrysolophus"

External links

* TerraNature [http://www.terranature.org/penguin.htm Three Eudyptes species endemic to New Zealand]