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Suliformes (Boobies, Cormorants, Darters, Frigatebirds and Shags)

 

Family: Anhingidae (Darters)

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Anhinga beckeri Emslie, 1998 - Late Pleistocene Florida, USA Extinct Access
Anhinga laticeps (De Vis, 1906)   Late Pleistocene Australia Invalid (synonym) Access
Anhinga rufa chantrei Oustalet, 1882 Levant darter 1990 Iraq, Israel and Turkey Missing Access

 

 

Family: Fregatidae (Frigatebirds)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags)

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Leucocarbo septentrionalis Rawlence et al., 2017 Kōhatu shag Holocene? North Island (southern) & South Island (northern), New Zealand Extinct Access
Microcarbo serventyorum Van Tets, 1994 Serventy's cormorant, Serventy's shag late Holocene? Western Australia, Australia Extinct Access
Phalacrocorax africanus nanus Newton & Gadow, 1893 Mauritius long-tailed cormorant, Mascarene reed cormorant 1600s or 1700s Mauritius & Réunion, Mascarene Islands Extinct Access

Phalacrocorax carbo major

Forbes, 1892   ? New Zealand Invalid (synonym) Access
Phalacrocorax kenyoni (Siegel-Causey, 1991) Kenyon's shag, Amchitka cormorant 22 February 1959 Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands (far western) Invalid (synonym) Access
Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Pallas, 1811 Spectacled cormorant, Pallas’ cormorant c.1850 Bering Island, Commander Islands, Russia Extinct Access
Phalacrocorax sp. nov. 'Madagascar' - Madagascan cormorant, Madagascan shag Holocene? Madagascar Extinct Access

 

 

Family: Sulidae (Boobies)

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Morus reyana Howard, 1936 Playa Del Rey gannet Late Pleistocene California, USA Extinct Access
Papasula abbotti costelloi Steadman, Schubel & Pahlavan, 1988 Ua Huka booby c.1200 AD Ua Huka & Tahuata, Marquesas Islands Extinct Access
Sula dactylatra tasmani van Tets, Meredith, Fullagar & Davidson, 1988 Tasman booby - Lord Howe Island & Norfolk Island, Tasman Sea, Australia Rediscovered Access

 

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