v2023-Aug-09

 COPEPEDIA
 Spheniscidae
Bonaparte, 1831
T5032890       Quick-Link [ https://copepedia.org/?id=T5032890 ]
Family ( WoRMS-Aphia: 0196034 | ITIS: 0174443 )
WoRMS taxon status is:   "accepted"
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Sphenisciformes
   
Animalia
Kingdom		 : Chordata
Phylum		 : Vertebrata
Subphylum		 : Gnathostomata
Superclass		 : Aves
Class		 : Sphenisciformes
Order		 : Spheniscidae
Family


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while light-blue dots indicate locations of "presence-only"/non-quantitative observations ( obs globally).
Yellow Stars show locations of any time series reporting this taxa or group ( sites globally).
 
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DATABASE Info


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non-quantitative		 MOLECULAR Info


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This Family currently has 6 taxonomic siblings (listed below) and an expanded tree of 24 members (self + siblings + sub-siblings).

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#Distribution MapTaxonomic SiblingsPHOTOs
1
  Aptenodytes
J. R. Forster, 1777
Genus   [ "accepted" ]   T5032900
WoRMS-ID:   206442

# of direct Siblings:   2
# (total) of all siblings-and-sub-siblings:   0
# of DB-records (self+all-sibs):   0
# of non-Quantitative records (self+all-sibs):   215574
# of Time Series sites (self+all-sibs):   0
# of Barcodes (self+all-sibs):   0
2
  Eudyptes
Vieillot, 1816
Genus   [ "accepted" ]   T5032907
WoRMS-ID:   206769

# of direct Siblings:   8
# (total) of all siblings-and-sub-siblings:   0
# of DB-records (self+all-sibs):   0
# of non-Quantitative records (self+all-sibs):   80596
# of Time Series sites (self+all-sibs):   0
# of Barcodes (self+all-sibs):   0
3
  Eudyptula
Bonaparte, 1856
Genus   [ "accepted" ]   T5032908
WoRMS-ID:   225885

# of direct Siblings:   1
# (total) of all siblings-and-sub-siblings:   0
# of DB-records (self+all-sibs):   0
# of non-Quantitative records (self+all-sibs):   219894
# of Time Series sites (self+all-sibs):   0
# of Barcodes (self+all-sibs):   0
4
  Megadyptes
Milne-Edwards, 1880
Genus   [ "accepted" ]   T5032921
WoRMS-ID:   225876

# of direct Siblings:   1
# (total) of all siblings-and-sub-siblings:   0
# of DB-records (self+all-sibs):   0
# of non-Quantitative records (self+all-sibs):   180
# of Time Series sites (self+all-sibs):   0
# of Barcodes (self+all-sibs):   0
5
  Pygoscelis
Wagler, 1832
Genus   [ "accepted" ]   T5032938
WoRMS-ID:   225747

# of direct Siblings:   3
# (total) of all siblings-and-sub-siblings:   0
# of DB-records (self+all-sibs):   0
# of non-Quantitative records (self+all-sibs):   147851
# of Time Series sites (self+all-sibs):   0
# of Barcodes (self+all-sibs):   0
6
  Spheniscus
Brisson, 1760
Genus   [ "accepted" ]   T5032941
WoRMS-ID:   205911

# of direct Siblings:   3
# (total) of all siblings-and-sub-siblings:   0
# of DB-records (self+all-sibs):   0
# of non-Quantitative records (self+all-sibs):   689
# of Time Series sites (self+all-sibs):   0
# of Barcodes (self+all-sibs):   0

Last Updated:   2023-Aug-09