Taxon Profile: Phalacrocorax fuscescens

Taxonomy details

Context

Taxon Id
59660
Common Name
Black-faced Cormorant
Authority
(Vieillot,1817)
Naming Status
Currently accepted name
Status
Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
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Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.

Hierarchy

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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Ciconiiformes
Family
Phalacrocoracidae
Genus
Phalacrocorax

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1998
Catalogue id
2552A5
Photographer
Wienecke, Barbara

Profile

Source of taxon data
CAVS
Latest Taxonomic scrutiny
CAVS 8.1 on 3-Jun-1994
Comments
CAVS 8.1 update:03-JUN-94
Revised to
    Leucocarbo fuscescens (Vieillot, 1817) (Black-faced Shag) Profile