Eudyptes chrysocome

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Overview

Vulnerable

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: High

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -4,778 meters (0 to -15,676 feet).Mean = -1,466.630 meters (-4,811.778 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,512.550 based on 83 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Ecology: It breeds in colonies, from sea-level to cliff-tops, and sometimes inland. It feeds on krill and other crustaceans, squid, octopus and fish11. (Ref. 66416)


List of Habitats :10.1Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m) 12.1Marine Intertidal - Rocky Shoreline 13.1Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Eudyptes chrysocome (Forster, 1781)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eudyptes

There are approximately 17 species in this genus:

E. atrata · E. chrysocome (Rockhopper Penguin) · E. chrysocome catarractes · E. chrysocome chrysocome · E. chrysocome filholi · E. chrysocome moseleyi · E. chrysolophus (Macaroni Penguin) · E. chrysolophus chrysolophus · E. chrysolophus schlegeli · E. crestatus (Rockhopper Penguin) · E. crestatus crestatus · E. cristatus · E. minor (Little Penguin) · E. pachyrhynchus (Fiordland Crested Penguin) · E. robustus (Snares Crested Penguin) · E. schlegeli (Royal Penguin) · E. sclateri (Erect-Crested Penguin)

Bibliography

• Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2005. Threatened Birds of the World 2005. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 30/04/2005.

More Info

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2005. Eudyptes chrysocome. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2005. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Inventory of Antarctic seabird breeding sites
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851884
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-559996
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13823602
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 559996
• IUCN ID: 40261
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 138101

Footnotes

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