Poikilocarbo Boetticher 1935 (Red-legged cormorant)

Aves - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae

Parent taxon: Phalacrocoracidae according to J. del Hoyo et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Borvocarbo, Gulosus, Leucocarbo, Leucocarboninae, Limicorallus, Microcarbo, Miocorax, Nambashag, Nannopterum, Nectornis, Oligocorax, Paracorax, Phalacrocoracinae, Phalacrocorax, Piscator, Urile, Valenticarbo

Subtaxa: Poikilocarbo gaimardi

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Poikilocarbo in the database

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