Southern rockhopper penguin

Southern rockhopper penguin; Temporal range: Pleistocene to recent
	Adult in the New Island (Falkland Islands) rookery
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Sphenisciformes
Family:	Spheniscidae
Genus:	Eudyptes
Species:	E. chrysocome
Binomial name
	Eudyptes chrysocome; (Forster, JR, 1781)
Subspecies
	See text: E. c. chrysocome – Western; E. c. filholi – Eastern;
	Distribution map rockhopper penguins; Green: western subspecies, blue: eastern subspecies
Synonyms
	Aptenodytes chrysocome J.R.Forster, 1781; Aptenodytes crestata J.F. Miller, 1784; Eudyptes crestatus (J.F. Miller, 1784);

The southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of rockhopper penguin, that is sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America.

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