Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
Eudyptes filholiHutton, FW, 1879
English (US) Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
The Eastern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes filholi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Spheniscidae (Penguins) in the order Sphenisciformes.
Range: breeds coastally on Prince Edward, Crozet, Kerguelen, Heard (southern Indian Ocean), Macquarie (southeast of Australia), and Auckland, Campbell, and Antipodes islands (New Zealand)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Eudyptes filholi
- Family
- Spheniscidae (Penguins)
- Order
- Sphenisciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
- Described by
- Hutton, FW, 1879
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Hutton, FW, 1879
- Type locality
- Campbell Island.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3 p.334
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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