Eudyptula

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Eudyptula
Temporal range: Piacenzian–Recent
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Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae
Genus: Eudyptula
Bonaparte, 1856
Type species
Aptenodytes minor[2]

Species

Eudyptula minor

Eudyptula novaehollandiae

The genus Eudyptula ("good little diver") contains two species of penguin, found in southern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands). They are commonly known as the little penguin, little blue penguin, or, in Australia, fairy penguin. In the language of the Māori people of New Zealand, little penguins are known as kororā.[3]

For many years, a

Eudyptula minor elsewhere.[5] E. novaehollandiae probably arrived in New Zealand from Australia less than 500 years ago, following the local extinction of E. minor in Otago.[6]

Classification

Order

Sphenisciformes

Extant Species

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Eudyptula minor little penguin New Zealand, Chatham Islands
Eudyptula novaehollandiae Australian little penguin Southern Australia, Otago

Fossil species

Image Scientific name Distribution
Eudyptula wilsonae[1] Tangahoe Formation, Taranaki, New Zealand

References

  1. ^ a b c Thomas, Daniel B; Tennyson, Alan JD; Marx, Felix G; Ksepka, Daniel T (2023). "Pliocene fossils support a New Zealand origin for the smallest extant penguins". Journal of Paleontology. 97 (3): 711–721.
    doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.30
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  2. ^ (Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 3 (1780): 135, 147.
  3. ^ Flemming, S.A. (2013). "Little penguin". NZ Birds Online. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  4. ^ Banks, Jonathan C.; Mitchell, Anthony D.; Waas, Joseph R.; Paterson, Adrian M. (2002). "An unexpected pattern of molecular divergence within the blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) complex" (PDF). Notornis. 49 (1): 29–38.
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  6. PMID 26842575
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