Eudyptes chrysocome, Rockhopper penguin
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Eudyptes chrysocome   (Forster, 1781)

Rockhopper penguin
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Aves | Sphenisciformes | Spheniscidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Others.  Polar

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic. Subtropical to polar.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 55.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 91362); common length : 55.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8812); max. published weight: 2.8 kg (Ref. 356)

Short description Morphology

Culmen: 4.255 cm; tarsus: 1.94 cm.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

This species is gregarious, noisy and quarrelsome, and it is known to breed in huge colonies on steep cliffs (Ref. 91362). Pursuit diving (Ref. 356).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Cherel, Y., C.-A. Bost, C. Guinet and H. Weimerskirch 2005 Feeding habits of seabirds and marine mammals of the Kerguelen Archipelago. pp. 31-36 In Palomares, M.L.D., Pruvost, P., Pitcher, T.J., Pauly, D. (eds.) Modeling Antarctic marine ecosystems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 13(7). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (Ref. 89128)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Vulnerable (VU) (A2abcde+3bcde+4abcde); Date assessed: 24 August 2020

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Resilience
(Ref. 69278):		 High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=5.93)
Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 Moderate vulnerability (42 of 100).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):		 Unknown.