Penguin genera are the genera of the family Spheniscidae, which Animal Diversity Web labels penguins and lists with six genera. GBIF keeps 33, among them Eudyptes with about 19 descendant taxa, Pygoscelis with about 14, Eudyptula and Spheniscus with about 9 each and Aptenodytes with about 8, together with Palaeospheniscus, Palaeeudyptes, Delphinornis, Archaeospheniscus and Platydyptes, so its list is much longer than the six genera of the other account.
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Family Spheniscidae (penguins)
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Spheniscidae
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"canonicalName":"Eudyptes","vernacularName":"Crested Penguins","authorship":"Vieillot, 1816","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Vieillot, Louis. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle Ornithologie Elémentaire. A. Belin, Paris. London :,1883. : 1-70.","numDescendants":19
Children of Spheniscidae: Pygoscelis
"canonicalName":"Pygoscelis","vernacularName":"Brush-tailed Penguins","authorship":"Wagler, 1832","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Isis (Oken), 1832","numDescendants":14
Children of Spheniscidae: Eudyptula
"canonicalName":"Eudyptula","vernacularName":"Little Penguin","authorship":"Bonaparte, 1856","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42","numDescendants":9
Children of Spheniscidae: Spheniscus
"canonicalName":"Spheniscus","vernacularName":"Banded Penguins","authorship":"Brisson, 1760","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Brisson, M. J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qu'ils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Bauche, Paris. Vol. Tome 1: j-xxiv , 1-526, j-lxxiij , Pl. I-XXXVII.","numDescendants":9
Children of Spheniscidae: Aptenodytes
"canonicalName":"Aptenodytes","vernacularName":"Great Penguins","authorship":"J.F.Miller, 1778","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Var. Subj. nat. Hist. : pl. 23","numDescendants":8
Children of Spheniscidae: Palaeospheniscus
"canonicalName":"Palaeospheniscus","authorship":"Moreno & Mercerat, 1891","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"An. Mus. La Plata, 1 (Pal. Argent. 1)","numDescendants":8
Children of Spheniscidae: Palaeeudyptes
"canonicalName":"Palaeeudyptes","authorship":"Huxley, 1859","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":4
Children of Spheniscidae: Delphinornis
"canonicalName":"Delphinornis","authorship":"Wiman, 1905","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Bull. Geol. Inst. Upsala, 6 (2)","numDescendants":3
Children of Spheniscidae: Archaeospheniscus
"canonicalName":"Archaeospheniscus","authorship":"Marples, 1953","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Palaeont. Bull. N.Z., 20","numDescendants":3
Children of Spheniscidae: Platydyptes
"canonicalName":"Platydyptes","authorship":"Marples, 1953","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Palaeont. Bull. N.Z., 20","numDescendants":3
View the Source Crested penguin (Wikipedia)
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Eudyptes (from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû), meaning "true, well", and δύπτης (dúptes), meaning "diver", and thus, "true diver") is a genus of penguins whose members are collectively called crested penguins.
Aptenodytes - Wikipedia
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The genus Aptenodytes contains two extant and one extinct species of penguins, collectively known as the great penguins.
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