Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 137179

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Aves > Pelecaniformes > Phalacrocoracidae > Phalacrocorax

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760
Sources		original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London. [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details] additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.  [details] additional source: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] additional source: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Albanian karabullaku i deti  [details] Albanian korb uji  [details] Albanian vrançi i madh  [details] Danish skarv  [details] Dutch aalscholver  [details] English common cormorant  [details] English cormorant  [details] English great cormorant  [details] English long-tailed cormorant  [details] French grand cormoran  [details] German Kormoran  [details] Hebrew קורמורן גדול  [details] Lithuanian didysis kormoranas  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Ευρωπαϊκός Κορμοράνος  [details] Norwegian Bokmål storskarv  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk storskarv  [details] Polish kormoran  [details] Polish Kormoran czarny  [details] Romanian cormoranul mare  [details] Russian большой баклан  [details] Scottish Gaelic broigheal  [details] Slovenian kormoran  [details] Spanish cormorán grande  [details] Swedish storskarv  [details] Turkish karabatak  [details] Ukrainian Баклан великий  [details] Ukrainian Великий баклан  [details] Welsh mulfran  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh
Distribution		Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1015 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1516 nucleotides; 69 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS
Images		Skull of Great Cormorant added on 2005-03-23 - author: nuyttens filip qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-07 15:07:01 Phalacrocorax carbo added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-07 15:07:50 Aalscholver duikend added on 2009-04-03 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-07 15:08:40 Phalacrocorax carbo added on 2010-01-09 - author: Collection Wim Decock () qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-07 15:08:06 Aalscholvers added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-07 15:08:31 Phalacrocorax carbo added on 2011-09-08 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-07 15:08:17
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137179
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2011-04-08 06:18:06Z   checked   Adriaens, Peter
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		Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137179 on 2013-05-20
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