Kingdom Animalia Class Aves Family Phalacrocoracidae | Phylum Chordata Order Suliformes Genus Phalacrocorax | |
Similar Heard Island shag, Macquarie shag, South Georgia shag, Kerguelen shag, Bounty shag | ||
The Crozet shag (Phalacrocorax melanogenis), also known as the South Georgia cormorant, is a marine cormorant native to the Crozet and Prince Edward Islands and a few other subantarctic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Taxonomy and distribution
The Crozet shag is one of the blue-eyed shags, sometimes placed in the genera Leucocarbo, and a subspecies of the imperial shag. It is often treated as a full species.
References
Crozet shag Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA