Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Pygoscelis Wagler, 1832

AphiaID

225747 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225747)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Spheniscidae Bonaparte, 1831

Synonymised names

Pygoscelis tyreei Simpson, 1972 † · accepted

Direct children (3)

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Species Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
Species Pygoscelis antarcticus (Forster, 1781)
Species Pygoscelis papua (Forster, 1781)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2024). Pygoscelis Wagler, 1832. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225747 on 2024-11-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-04-20 12:16:00Z

created

Charbonneau, Danny

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Pygoscelis tyreei Simpson, 1972 †) Simpson, G. G. (1972). Pliocene Penguins from North Canterbury, New Zealand. <em>Rec. Canterbury Mus.</em> 9: 159-182. [details]

basis of record Woehler E.J. (compiler) 2006. Species list prepared for SCAR/IUCN/BirdLife International Workshop on Antarctic Regional Seabird Populations, March 2005, Cambridge, UK. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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