🐧Humboldt Penguin
秘鲁企鹅（台湾作洪保德環企鵝，学名：Spheniscus humboldti），又名洪氏环企鹅、洪堡企鹅，是一種分佈於南美洲的企鵝，主要在秘魯和智利沿岸繁殖。秘鲁企鹅的学名來自於第一個介紹此物種給西方學界的德國自然科學家亚历山大·冯·洪堡。 秘鲁企鹅是中型的企鵝，成鳥約65-70公分高。頭部呈黑色，有一條白色寬帶從眼後過耳朵一直延伸至下頜附近；有的背部帶有白色斑點。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 4.37 kg
- Body length
- 0.65 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Humboldt Penguin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.37 kgrecord 4.5 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 4.38 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length0.65 mtypical adult, total lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Figures vary
- 0.65 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Tail length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.11 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatMarineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.4 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 Humboldt Penguin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderSphenisciformes
- ›familySpheniscidae
- ›genusSpheniscus
- ›speciesSpheniscus humboldti
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusSpheniscus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusSpheniscus
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