Editing Pygoscelis (section)

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Brush-tailed penguins
| fossil_range = [[Eocene]] to present
| image = Manchot 01.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Pygoscelis antarctica]]''
| taxon = Pygoscelis
| authority = [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1832
| type_species = ''[[Pygoscelis antarctica|Aptenodytes antarctica]]''<ref>''Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis'' 3 (1780): [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073704044;view=1up;seq=186 134], [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073704044;view=1up;seq=193 141], [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073704044;view=1up;seq=205 pl.4].</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''[[Pygoscelis adeliae]]''<br />
''[[Pygoscelis antarctica]]''<br />
''[[Pygoscelis papua]]''<br />
†''[[Pygoscelis tyreei]]'' <small>([[fossil]])</small><br />
†''[[Pygoscelis calderensis]]'' <small>(fossil)</small><br />
†''[[Pygoscelis grandis]]'' <small>(fossil)</small>
}}
The genus '''''Pygoscelis''''' ("rump-legged") contains three living species of [[penguin]]s collectively known as "brush-tailed penguins".<ref>{{cite web |title=''Pygoscelis'' |url=http://www.pinguins.info/Engels/Pygoscelis_eng.html |website=www.pinguins.info |date=2000 |accessdate=2016-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501202914/http://www.pinguins.info/Engels/Pygoscelis_eng.html |archive-date=2010-05-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref>