Australian little penguin near burrow at night, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
Scientific 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 white-flippered form of the little penguin found only in North Canterbury, New Zealand was considered either a separate species, Eudyptula albosignata, or just a subspecies, Eudyptula minor albosignata. Analysis of mtDNA revealed that Eudyptula falls instead into two groups: a western one, found along the southern coast of Australia and the Otago region of New Zealand, and another found in the rest of New Zealand.[4] These two groups are now considered full species: Eudyptula novaehollandiae in Australia and Otago, and 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]
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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. Bibcode:2023JPal...97..711T. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.30.
^(Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 3 (1780): 135, 147.
^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.
^Grosser, Stefanie; Burridge, Christopher P.; Peucker, Amanda J.; Waters, Jonathan M. (2015-12-14). "Coalescent Modelling Suggests Recent Secondary-Contact of Cryptic Penguin Species". PLOS ONE. 10 (12): –0144966. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1044966G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144966. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4682933. PMID 26675310.
^Grosser, Stefanie; Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Anderson, Christian N. K.; Smith, Ian W. G.; Scofield, R. Paul; Waters, Jonathan M. (2016-02-10). "Invader or resident? Ancient-DNA reveals rapid species turnover in New Zealand little penguins". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283 (1824): 20152879. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2879. ISSN 1471-2954. PMC 4760177. PMID 26842575.
The little penguin (Eudyptula minor) is a species of penguin from New Zealand. They are commonly known as fairy penguins, little blue penguins, or blue...
The genus Eudyptula ("good little diver") contains two species of penguin, found in southern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand (including the Chatham...
The Australian little penguin (Eudyptula novaehollandiae), also called the fairy penguin, little blue penguin, or blue penguin, is a species of penguin...
35 kg (77 lb). The smallest penguin species is the little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor), also known as the fairy penguin, which stands around 30–33 cm...
Genus Aptenodytes: two species Genus Pygoscelis: three species Genus Eudyptula: one species Genus Spheniscus: four species Genus Megadyptes: one species...
is 51 ha (130 acres) in area. It has rookeries for the little penguin Eudyptula minor. There are two villages in the Jervis Bay Territory. They are both...
Important Bird Area. It is home to one of the largest little penguin (Eudyptula minor) breeding colonies in Australia, the second largest breeding colony...
location or public profile. It is not exhaustive. Some little penguin (Eudyptula minor) colonies are particularly large, well-known, or are tourist attractions;...
Zealand in canoes. See the article Australasian swamphen for details. Eudyptula novaehollandiae was originally endemic to Australia. It was indirectly...
area also has a lighthouse, beaches and a colony of little penguins (Eudyptula minor). The foghorn, a Chance Brothers "Type G" diaphone at Low Head Lighthouse...
the Miocene. The smallest penguin species is the little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor), which stands around 30–33 cm (12–13 in) tall and weighs 1.2–1...
that nest in the open are closed out by the canopy, and Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) and Bridled Terns (Sterna anaethetus) are excluded by the lack...
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