Waitaha penguin
The Waitaha penguin (Megadyptes antipodes waitaha) is an extinct subspecies of Megadyptes antipodes, and sister taxon to the extant yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes antipodes), that probably died out soon after humans settled in New Zealand. It was described (then as a separate species) in 2009.
| Waitaha penguin Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Sphenisciformes |
| Family: | Spheniscidae |
| Genus: | Megadyptes |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †M. a. waitaha |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Megadyptes antipodes waitaha (Boessenkool et al., 2009) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Megadyptes waitaha | |
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