An explorer found these penguins and named them after his wife, what a great gift!
The genus of the Adelie Penguin is Pygoscelis.
Penguin
An Adelie penguin, Latin name Pygoscelis adeliae, is a species of penguin with distinctive white rings around the eyes.
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Adelie
Adelie Penguin
There is actually a slice of Antarctica, just to the west of the Ross Sea, named Adelie Land, and this is the origin of the penguin's name. This slice of Antarctica is claimed by the French, but the Antarctic Treaty annuls all such claims. Dumont D'Urville named it after his wife. The French station there is named after the explorer. Adelie penguins are a small penguin that live in a populous colony, and are about 450 - 500 mm tall. They construct a nest from stones to keep the eggs elevated from the water melt in the spring. They catch fish and krill at sea.
There are many penguin species, such as the Emperor penguin, the Adelie penguin, the Rockhopper penguin, and many, many more. Only tow species actually live in Antarctica the Emperor and the Adelie.
Adelie penguins rank as species with a higher classification of Pygoscelis.
In 1830, French explorer Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adélie. According to Wikipedia