Humboldt Penguin / Spheniscus humboldti
WBN 
Humboldt Penguin
SCI Name:
Protonym: Spheniscus Humboldti NovaActaAcad.Caes.Leop.Carol. 16 Suppl. p.110 pl.21
Taxonomy: Sphenisciformes / Spheniscidae / Spheniscus
Taxonomy Code: humpen1
Type Locality: Peru.
Author: Meyen
Publish Year: 1834
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
SPHENISCUS
(Spheniscidae; Ϯ Jackass Penguin S. demersus) Dim. < Gr. σφην sphēn, σφηνος sphēnos wedge; "Genre du Manchot. (1) Genus Sphenisci. (1) .... (1) Manchot, nom que j'ai donné aux Oiseaux de ce genre à cause de la briéveté de leurs ailes. ... (1) Spheniscus, nomen a me hujus generis Avibus inditum" (Brisson 1760): based on Diomedea demersa Linnaeus, 1758, and "Anser Magellanica", "Pinguin" or "Penguin" of various earlier authors; "Spheniscus Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 52; 6, p. 96. Type, by monotypy, "Manchot" et "Manchot tachété" = Diomedea demersa Linné." (Peters 1931, 1, 33). The Jackass Penguin, so-called from its braying cries, is sometimes known as African Penguin.
Synon. Dypsicles, Hyponectes, Molinaea, Penguinus.
● (syn. Fratercula Ϯ Atlantic Puffin F. arctica) "PAPPEGAAIDUIKER, in 't Latyn Spheniscus.* De soorten van Duiker en Aarsvoet, by LINNÆUS, Syst. Nat. gesl. 51 & 52." (Moehring 1758).
humboldti / humboldtii
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (1769-1859) Prussian scientist, explorer (Amazilia, subsp. Corydospiza alaudina, subsp. Pternistis afer, Pteroglossus, Spheniscus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
