Microcarbo
Microcarbo is a genus of fish-eating birds, known as cormorants, of the family Phalacrocoracidae. The genus was formerly subsumed within Phalacrocorax.
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| Little pied cormorant Microcarbo melanoleucos | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
| Genus: | Microcarbo Bonaparte, 1856 |
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Microcarbo has been recognized as a valid genus by the IOC's World Bird List[1] on the basis of work by Siegel-Causey (1988), Kennedy et al. (2000), and Christidis and Boles (2008).
As suggested by the name, this genus contains the smallest of the world's cormorants.
The genus contains five extant species.[1]
List of species
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Microcarbo coronatus | Crowned cormorant | Cape Agulhas north to Swakopmund along the coast of southern Africa |
_-_20070322.jpg.webp) | Microcarbo niger | Little cormorant | Indian Subcontinent east to Java |
| Microcarbo melanoleucos | Little pied cormorant | New Zealand, from Stewart Island to Northland, mainland Australia, Tasmania and Indonesia |
.jpg.webp) | Microcarbo pygmaeus | Pygmy cormorant | south-east of Europe (east of Italy) and south-west of Asia, in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan |
.jpg.webp) | Microcarbo africanus | Reed cormorant | Africa south of the Sahara, and Madagascar |
- †Serventys' cormorant, Microcarbo serventyorum
References
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Hamerkop, Shoebill, pelicans, boobies, cormorants". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.
- Kennedy, M., R. D. Gray, and H. G. Spencer. 2000. The phylogenetic relationships of the shags and cormorants: can sequence data resolve a disagreement between behavior and morphology? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17: 345–359.
- Siegel-Causey, D. 1988. Phylogeny of the Phalacrocoracidae. Condor 90: 885–905. Available at (Accessed 13 May 2010).
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