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Eudyptes pachyrhynchus (Fiordland Penguin)

Synonyms: Tasidyptes hunteri

Wikipedia Abstract

The Hunter Island penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is an extinct penguin, subfossil remains of which were found in a Holocene Aboriginal midden at Stockyard Site on Hunter Island, in Bass Strait 5 km off the western end of the north coast of Tasmania, Australia. The remains were estimated by radiocarbon dating to be about 760 ± 70 years old. The validity of the taxon has subsequently been questioned because of the fragmentary nature of the fossils, the lack of distinguishability of some of them from Eudyptes, and their origin in different stratigraphic layers of the midden.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.1308
EDGE Score: 3.48195
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.028 lbs (4.095 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  108 grams
Female Weight [4]  8.179 lbs (3.71 kg)
Male Weight [4]  9.061 lbs (4.11 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [4]  10.8 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [2]  2
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  73 days
Incubation [5]  33 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Migration [6]  Intracontinental
Snout to Vent Length [1]  22 inches (55 cm)
Female Maturity [1]  6 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coorong National Park II 121235 South Australia, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Austrogoniodes concii[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Murie JO, Davis LS & McLean IG 1991. Identifying the sex of Fiordland crested penguins by morphometric characters. Notornis 38: 233–238
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 7Yolanda Van Heezik (1990) Diets of yellow-eyed, Fiordland crested, and little blue penguins breeding sympatrically on Codfish Island, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 17:4, 543-548
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0