Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Order Suliformes | Family Phalacrocoracidae Rank Genus | |
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Lower classifications Little pied cormorant, Pygmy cormorant, Little Cormorant, Reed cormorant, Crowned cormorant | ||
Microcarbo pygmeus
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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Microcarbo has been recognized as a valid genus by the IOC’s World Bird List (Gill and Donsker 2010) 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. Five living and one extinct species are recognized.
Little cormorant microcarbo niger
List of species
References
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