Species profile—Eudyptula minor (little penguin)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Spheniscidae (Penguins) → Eudyptula minor (little penguin)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Spheniscidae (Penguins)
- Scientific name
- Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781)
- Common name
- little penguin
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1113
- Alternate name(s)
- fairy penguin
southern blue penguin
little blue penguin - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine & Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1113
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
