Taxon Profile: Phalacrocorax purpurascens purpurascens
Taxonomy details
Context
- Taxon Id
- 66995
- Common Name
- Macquarie Shag
- Authority
- Unknown or not entered.
- InfraSpecies Authority
- (Brandt, 1837)
- Naming Status
- Currently accepted name
- Status
- Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
See map of extents - Taxon has been resolved to the rank Infraspecies.
Hierarchy
Use links to drilldown to other taxa via rank
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Ciconiiformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- Genus
- Phalacrocorax
©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1996
- Catalogue id
- 2544C5
- Photographer
- Tarves, Tracy
Profile
- Source of taxon data
- ERIN
- Latest Taxonomic scrutiny
- D Watts
- Reference Site/Paper in which the taxon name was checked
- Anatarctic Wildlife
Species Profile:
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
| Other Common Names Other vernacular or common names, including commercial |
Old genus is Leucocarbo |
Relationships with other taxa
- is a host of the parasite - Pectinopygus turbinatus (Bird louse) Profile
- is a host of the parasite - Pectinopygus macquariensis Hopkins and Clay, 1952: 269 Profile
- is a host of the parasite - Pectinopygus(Philichthyophaga) macquariensis Harrison, 1937: 34 Profile
- is a host of the parasite - Oncophorus turbinatus Piaget, 1890: 233. Profile
Species belongs to the following lists - Follow link on List Name to see list of all species.
| Type | List Name | Description | Status | Basis of Record |
| Antarctic-wide | Antarctic Birds | The definite list of Antarctic birds with status on breeding, vagrant or visitor to the region. | Breeding | Observation |