Eudyptes chrysolophus

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Overview

Vulnerable

Common Names

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Description

Physical 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 -6,870 meters (0 to -22,539 feet).Mean = -1,925.280 meters (-6,316.535 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,701.590 based on 224 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Ecology: It nests on level to steep ground , often walking hundreds of metres across steep screes to nest-sites. Breeding areas usually have little or no vegetation due to erosion by birds. It feeds mainly on small krill4. (Ref. 66417)


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 chrysolophus (Brandt) 1837
2. Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: October 17, 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 chrysolophus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2005. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• 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 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 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 04, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Inventory of Antarctic seabird breeding sites
• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Senckenberg: Collection Aves (spirit preserved)
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851888
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174452
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13821178
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174452
• IUCN ID: 40262
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 151937

Footnotes

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