Gentoo penguin

Gentoo penguin
Temporal range: Miocene to recent
At Brown Bluff, Tabarin Peninsula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae
Genus: Pygoscelis
Species:
P. papua
Binomial name
Pygoscelis papua
(Forster, 1781)
Distribution of the gentoo penguin

The gentoo penguin (/ˈdʒɛntuː/ JEN-too) (Pygoscelis papua) is a species complex) in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the Chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus). The earliest scientific description was made in 1781 by Johann Reinhold Forster with a type locality in the Falkland Islands. The species calls in a variety of ways, but the most frequently heard is a loud, trumpeting call, emitted with the head thrown back. A new gentoo penguin species, Pygoscelis kerguelensis sp. nov., was discovered in April 2026 in the Kerguelen Islands.

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