Taxon documents and images: Aptenodytes patagonicus

Context

Taxon Id

1079

Common Name

King Penguin

Authority

Miller,1778

Naming Status

Currently accepted name

Status

Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
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Is endemic within the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean

Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.

Hierarchy

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Sphenisciformes

Family

Spheniscidae

Genus

Aptenodytes