We present our image index for Australian Cormorants, providing quick links to some of the listed bird species, found in Australia. Many thanks to the contributors, who have shared their insights and photographs to our section on the Chats (class Aves).

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Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Redbank Waterhole NT © Dorothy Latimer
Cormorants
Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)
Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)
Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)
Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Redbank Waterhole NT © Dorothy Latimer
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Subphylum: Vertebrata
  • Informal: Gnathostomata
  • Class: Aves
  • Order: Pelecaniformes
  • Suborder: Sulae
  • Family: Phalacrocoracidae
  • Genus: Phalacrocorax
  • Subgenus:
    • Phalacrocorax (Anacarbo) Roberts, 1922
    • Phalacrocorax (Phalacrocorax) Brisson, 1760
  • infrageneric Phalacrocorax
  • Species:
    • Phalacrocorax melanoleucos Gould, 1837
    • Phalacrocorax melanoleucos (Vieillot)

Footnote & References

  1. Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/bb25e81d-c839-4ab2-ade6-5492ec23a567
  2. Old World Cormorants (Genus Phalacrocorax), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/4263-Phalacrocorax

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