Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
family
Data links
LSID
JSON / WMS/ RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:aac4b0b0-1ee2-4bb6-9d33-420ac7f17c7f

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=family:SPHENISCIDAE
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Marine Habitats
 Terrestrial Habitats

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Online resources

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
SPHENISCIDAE

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Spheniscus novaehollandiae Stephens, 1826
Aptenodytes australis J.E. Gray, 1829

Common Names

Common name Source
Penguins
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
class
AVES
order
SPHENISCIFORMES
family
SPHENISCIDAE  Recorded in Australia
genus
Aptenodytes  Recorded in Australia
genus
Eudyptes: Crested Penguins  Recorded in Australia
genus
Eudyptula  Recorded in Australia
genus
Pygoscelis  Recorded in Australia
genus
Spheniscus  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records

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Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA