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Pygoscelis Wagler, 1832 
AphiaID: 225747

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Sphenisciformes (Order) > Spheniscidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Genus
Parent Spheniscidae
Sources  basis of record: Woehler E.J. (compiler) 2006. Species list prepared for SCAR/IUCN/BirdLife International Workshop on Antarctic Regional Seabird Populations, March 2005, Cambridge, UK. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

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taxa

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 Species Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
Species Pygoscelis antarcticus (Forster, 1781)
Species Pygoscelis papua (Forster, 1781)
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225747
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-04-20 12:16:00Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2006-09-28 06:51:36Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Pygoscelis Wagler, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225747 on 2013-05-20
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