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Yellow-eyed Penguins
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Yellow-eyed Penguins

Megadyptes

Megadyptes ("large diver") is a genus of penguin which consists of two species, yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) and the extinct Waitaha penguin (Megadyptes waitaha).

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Yellow-eyed Penguin

speciesMegadyptes antipodes

Waitaha Penguin

speciesMegadyptes waitaha

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3830.