Little Black Cormorant
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris(Brandt, JF, 1837)
English (US) Little Black Cormorant
The Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) 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: coastal and inland Java and Sulawesi eastward through New Guinea region, Australia (including Tasmania but excluding western deserts), Lord Howe and Norfolk islands (east of Australia), New Caledonia, and New Zealand (mainly North Island but spreading southward)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
- Order
- Suliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Little Black Cormorant
- Described by
- (Brandt, JF, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Carbo sulcirostris
- Described by
- (Brandt, JF, 1837)
- Type locality
- 'Terres australes' = New South Wales, fide Mathews, 1912, Novit. Zool., 18, p. 240.
- Original description
- Bulletin Scientifique publié par l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 3 col.56
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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