Species Eudyptes pachyrhynchus G.R. Gray & Sharpe, 1845

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eudyptes pachyrhynchus Gray, G.R. 1845. Part 3. Birds. In, Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Capt. Sir James Clark Ross during the years 1839 to 1843. London Vol. 1. [Date published October 1844] [17] [usually attributed to G.R. Gray, but title page (Birds) indicates Sharp as a co-author].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1845.1.13.29 Skin, Waikowaiti, South Island, New Zealand.

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp. [218].

 

Introduction

Following Christidis and Boles (2008: 98), E. robustus is merged as a subspecies under E. pachyrhynchus, this requiring allocation of a new CAVS number.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds on South Island of NZ, frequent visitor to southern Australia and Macquarie Island

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [98]

 

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [5] (Thick-billed Penguin, Victoria Penguin)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (Fiordland Penguin)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [19] (Fiordland Penguin)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	04-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
20-Nov-2015	SPHENISCIDAE Bonaparte, 1831	12-Nov-2015	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	SPHENISCIFORMES	11-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)