🐧Gentoo Penguin
白眉企鹅(台湾作巴布亞企鵝,学名:Pygoscelis papua),亦稱金圖企鵝,其种加词“papua”意为“巴布亚的”。巴布亞企鵝是僅次於皇帝企鵝和國王企鵝的體型最大的企鵝物種。牠們是企鵝家族中游泳速度最快的選手,游泳的時速可達36公里。 巴布亞企鵝在英語中的「Gentoo」是源於葡萄牙文的「異教徒」(Gentio)一字,因為其頭部有白色帶狀類似頭巾的花紋;而中文名稱巴布亞源自種名papua,因巴布亞企鵝命名時曾被誤以為源自巴布亞新畿內亞。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 5.93 kg
- Body length
- 0.81 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 41 years
Everything we know about the Gentoo Penguin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.93 kgrecord 6.12 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 5.95 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.81 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tail length0.12 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.13 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan41 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 2AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatMarineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5.9 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 Gentoo Penguin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderSphenisciformes
- ›familySpheniscidae
- ›genusPygoscelis
- ›speciesPygoscelis papua
- 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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