Southern Rockhopper Penguin

SCI Name:  Eudyptes chrysocome
Protonym:  Aptenodytes chrysocome Comment.Phys.Soc.Reg.Sci.Gotting. 3(1780) p.133,135
Taxonomy:  Sphenisciformes / Spheniscidae / Eudyptes
Taxonomy Code:  rocpen1
Type Locality:  Tasmania and Falkland Islands = Falkland Islands; further restricted to Kidney Island, Berkeley Sound, East Falkland Island, by Carins, 1974, Emu, 74, p. 56.
Author:  Forster, JR
Publish Year:  1781
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

EUDYPTES
(Spheniscidae; Ϯ Rockhopper Penguin E. chrysocome) Gr. ευ eu  fine; δυτης dutēs  diver  < δυω duō  to dive; "272. Gorfou, Endyptes.  Aptenodytes, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec droit à la base, comprimé, sillonné obliquement; mandibule supérieure crochue; l'inférieure arrondie ou tronquée à la pointe. 2 sections.  Esp. Manchot des Hottentots. — Sauteur, Buff.  ....  Eudyptes  [ευ, bene, δυπτης, urinator]" (Vieillot 1816); "Eudyptes Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 67, 70. Type, by subsequent designation, Catarrhactes chrysocome auct. = Aptenodytes crestata J. F. Miller." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 31); "Eudyptes Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, pp. 67, 70. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 77), Aptenodytes chrysocome Forster." (Falla & Mougin in Peters, 1979, I, 2nd. ed., p. 126).   
Var. Endyptes (original spelling).   
Synon. Catadyptes, Cataractes, Catarractes, Catarrhactes, Chrysocoma, Geopega, Microdyptes, Tasidyptes.

chrysocome
Gr. χρυσοκομος khrusokomos  golden-haired  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; κομη komē  hair.

Chrysocoma
(Spheniscidae; syn. Eudyptes † Southern Rockhopper Penguin E. chrysocome) Gr. χρυσοκομος khrusokomos  golden-haired  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; κομη komē   hair; "CHRYSOCOMA.  GORFOU.  ... HOPPING GORFOU. (Chrysocoma saltator.)  CH. rostro rufo-fusco, pedibus flavescentibus, crista frontali erecta, auriculari deflexa sulphurea  ... This species is very common in the Falkland Islands, and other parts of the southern regions, and frequently jumps three or four feet out of the water upon meeting with the slightest obstacle; whence they have obtained the name of Hopping Penguin, and Jumping Jack, from our sailors" (Stephens 1825); "Chrysocoma Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., 13, (1), p. 57, 1825—new name for Eudyptes Vieillot." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 6).
Var. Chrysocome.

SUBSPECIES

Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Western)
SCI Name: Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome
chrysocome
Gr. χρυσοκομος khrusokomos  golden-haired  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; κομη komē  hair.

Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eastern)
SCI Name: Eudyptes chrysocome filholi
filholi
Dr Antoine Pierre Henri Filhol (1843-1902) French palaeontologist, speleologist, zoologist (subsp. Eudyptes chrysocome).