🐧Chinstrap Penguin
纹颊企鹅（台湾作南極企鵝，学名：Pygoscelis antarcticus），是一種生活在南桑威奇群島、南極洲、南奧克尼群島、胡克角（南設得蘭群島）、南喬治亞島、布韋島、巴勒尼群島和彼得一世島等地的企鵝。其頭部下面有一條黑色的紋帶，使牠們看上去好像在戴著盔帽一般，故又稱帽帶企鵝，亦因為牠們有這些特徵，牠們成為了最容易被辨認的企鵝之一。牠們身長60-70公分，全球迄今為止共有7,500,000對有繁殖能力的南極企鵝。成年的南極企鵝平均重約4.5公斤。牠們主要以磷蝦、蝦和魚類為食。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 4.15 kg
- Body length
- 0.68 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Chinstrap Penguin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.15 kgrecord 4.35 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Body length0.68 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Tail length0.14 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Wing length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Tarsus length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatMarineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l4.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Chinstrap Penguin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderSphenisciformes
- ›familySpheniscidae
- ›genusPygoscelis
- ›speciesPygoscelis antarcticus
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusPygoscelis
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusPygoscelis
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