Species profile
Southern Rockhopper Penguin
Eudyptes chrysocome
Quick answer
occurs in Cape Horn, Malvinas / Falklands, Prince Edward Island to the Antipodes in the South Atlantic Ocean (from Tristan da Cunha to Gough Islands), and in the South Indian Ocean (in St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands) (Martínez, 1992). The subspecies E. c. chrysocome breeds in Tierra del Fuego and adjacent islands (Ildefonso and Diego Ramírez), and in Malvinas / Falklands. In Brazil, it is considered vagrant and occurs occasionally in RS (Belton, 1994; Barquete et al., 2006) with one specimen collected in July (MNRJ 33381).
- Scientific name
- Eudyptes chrysocome
- Family
- Spheniscidae
- Order
- Sphenisciformes
- Genus
- Eudyptes
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
Recording Southern Rockhopper Penguin in your journal
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- Aptenodytes ridgeni (Aptenodytes ridgeni)
- Aptenodytes spec (Aptenodytes spec)
- Archaeospheniscus lopdelli (Archaeospheniscus lopdelli)
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