Microcarbo
Sign in to saveMicrocarbo is a genus of fish-eating birds, known as cormorants, of the family Phalacrocoracidae. The genus was formerly subsumed within Phalacrocorax.
Taxonomy · GBIF
Little Pied Cormorant
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderSuliformes
- FamilyPhalacrocoracidae
Observations32,571
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Microcarbo is a genus of fish-eating birds, known as cormorants, of the family Phalacrocoracidae. The genus was formerly subsumed within Phalacrocorax.
Microcarbo has been recognized as a valid genus by the IOC's World Bird List on the basis of work by Siegel-Causey (1988), Kennedy et al. (2000), and Christidis and Boles (2008).