Flightless cormorant
Species of flightless bird endemic to the Galapagos islands / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The flightless cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi), also known as the Galapagos cormorant, is a cormorant endemic to the Galapagos Islands, and an example of the highly unusual fauna there. It is unique in that it is the only known cormorant that has lost the ability to fly. It was placed in its own genus, Nannopterum, but then was later placed with most of the other cormorants in the genus Phalacrocorax.[2] A 2014 study supported reclassifying it and two other American cormorant species back into Nannopterum.[3] The IOC followed this classification in 2021.[4]
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Flightless cormorant | |
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Elizabeth Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Suliformes |
Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
Genus: | Nannopterum |
Species: | N. harrisi |
Binomial name | |
Nannopterum harrisi (Rothschild, 1898) | |
Synonyms | |
Phalacrocorax harrisi |
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