Aves - Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Alternative combinations: Alca impennis, Plautus impennis
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Pinguinus according to J. A. Kilmer and D. W. Steadman 2016
See also del Hoyo et al. 2014, Greenway 1967, Hay 1902, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Jordan and Olson 1982, Lambrecht 1933, Linnaeus 1758, Mlikovsky 2002, Mourer-Chauvire 1999, Smith 2011, Violani 1974 and Weigel 1958
Sister taxon: Pinguinus alfrednewtoni
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (1 collection), Canada (5: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador), Denmark (9), Faroe Islands (3), France (2), Gibraltar (2), Greenland (23), Iceland (6), Ireland (1), Italy (5), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Norway (10), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Spain (3), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (22), United States (24: Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia)
Total: 125 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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