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Yellow-eyed penguin
The yellow-eyed penguin (''Megadyptes antipodes'') or ''hoiho'' is a penguin native to New Zealand. Previously thought closely related to the little penguin (''Eudyptula minor''), molecular research has shown it more closely related to penguins of the genus ''Eudyptes''. Like most other penguins, it is mainly piscivorous.
The species breeds around the South Island of New Zealand, as well as Stewart, Auckland, and Campbell Islands. Colonies on the Otago Peninsula are a popular tourist venue, where visitors may closely observe penguins from hides, trenches, or tunnels.
==Taxonomy==
The yellow-eyed penguin is the sole extant species in the genus ''Megadyptes''. (A smaller, recently extinct species ''M. waitaha'' was discovered in 2008.) Previously thought closely related to the little penguin (''Eudyptula minor''), new molecular research has shown it more closely related to penguins of the genus ''Eudyptes''. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evidence suggests it split from the ancestors of ''Eudyptes'' around 15 million years ago.
The yellow-eyed penguin was described by Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honoré Jacquinot in 1841. The Maori name is ''hoiho''.
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