Indian Cormorant
Phalacrocorax fuscicollisStephens, JF, 1826
English (US) Indian Cormorant
The Indian Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags) in the order Suliformes.
Range: patchily inland, from Indus Valley (central Pakistan) southward through Sri Lanka and eastward through India and southern Myanmar to southern Cambodia and southern VietnamRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
- Order
- Suliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Indian Cormorant
- Described by
- Stephens, JF, 1826
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Stephens, JF, 1826
- Type locality
- Bengal.
- Original description
- General Zoology, or systematic natural history 13, pt.1 p.91
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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