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Great Cormorant [incl. maroccanus]

Phalacrocorax carbo [incl. maroccanus] (= Phalacrocorax carbo) (Linnaeus, C 1758)

The great cormorant, known as the black shag in New Zealand and formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. The genus name is Latinised Ancient Greek, from φαλακρός and κόραξ, and carbo is Latin for "charcoal". Source: Wikipedia




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Classification
Order:
  Pelecaniformes
Family:
  Phalacrocoracidae
Genus:
   Phalacrocorax
Scientific:
  Phalacrocorax carbo


Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.133

Protonym:
  Pelecanus Carbo

Type locality:
  Europe; restricted to the 'rock-nesting form of the north Atlantic Ocean' by Hartert, 1920, Vogel Pal. Fauna, p. 1387.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/151/mode/1up


Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  849B4EE5A1618AB3

Avibase ID:
  avibase-849B4EE5

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/849B4EE5


Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 174715

Geographic range:

  • Phalacrocorax carbo carbo: northern Europe and northern North America; winters to Gulf coast, northwestern Africa
  • Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae: Australia including Tasmania, New Zealand, and Chatham Islands
  • Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis: north-central Europe to southern China; winters to southeastern Asia and Indonesia
  • Phalacrocorax carbo hanedae: Honshu Island (Japan)
  • Phalacrocorax lucidus maroccanus: coastal northwestern Africa (Morocco to Mauritania)
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English:
Great Cormorant [incl. maroccanus]
French:
Grand Cormoran [incl. maroccanus]


Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Great Cormorant [incl. maroccanus] ( Phalacrocorax carbo [incl. maroccanus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
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Howard and Moore 2nd edition:
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Howard and Moore 2nd edition (incl. ? suppl):
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Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource:
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Taxonomic status:

Species status: species (alt)

This taxon is a subspecies of Phalacrocorax [carbo or lucidus]

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Afrikaans: Witborsduiker
Arabic: الغاق الكبير
Asturian: Pucagón
Azerbaijani: Böyük qarabatdaq
Belarusian: Вялiкi баклан, Вялікі баклан
Bulgarian: Голям корморан, Обикновен корморан
Bengali: বড় পানকৌড়ি
Breton: Ar vorvran bras, Morvran vras
Catalan: Corb marí gros
Catalan (Balears): Corb marí gros
Valencian: Corba marina grossa
Czech: kormorán velký
Welsh: Mulfran
Danish: Skarv
German: Kormoran
Greek: (Ευρωπαϊκός) Κορμοράνος, Κoρμoράvoς
Greek (Cypriot): Κορμοράνος
English: Black Cormorant, Common cormorant, Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Great Cormorant [incl. maroccanus]
English (Kenya): Great Cormorant
English (New Zealand): Black Shag
English (Philippines): Great Cormorant
English (South Africa): White-breasted Cormorant
Esperanto: Granda kormorano
Spanish: Cormorán grande
Spanish (Spain): Cormorán Grande
Estonian: Kormoran, kormoran e. karbas
Basque: Ubarroi handi
Persian: باکلان بزرگ, باکلان (قره غاز) بزرگ, باکلان (قره‌قار) بزرگ
Finnish: merimetso
Faroese: Hiplingur
French: Grand Cormoran, Grand Cormoran [incl. maroccanus]
Frisian: Ielgoes, Ielguos
Irish: Broigheall
Gaelic: Sgarbh
Galician: Corvo mariño grande, Corvo mariño real
Manx: Scarroo, Shag
Hebrew: קורמורן גדול
Croatian: Veliki Vranac
Hungarian: kárókatona
Armenian: Մեծ Ձկնկուլ
Indonesian: Burung Pecuk-padi Besar, Pecukpadi Besar, Pecuk-padi besar
Icelandic: Dílaskarfur
Italian: Cormorano
Japanese (romaji): kawa-u
Japanese: カワウ
Japanese (Kanji): 河鵜
Georgian: დიდი ჩვამა
Kazakh: Үлкен сулқүзғыны
Kazakh (Transliteration): ülken sw-quzğın
Greenlandic: Oqaatsoq
Korean: 민물가마우지
Korean (Transliteration): min-mul-gamauji, minmul-gamauji
Cornish: Morvran
Scientific: Pelecanus Carbo, Phalacrocorax carbo, Phalacrocorax carbo [incl. maroccanus], Phalacrocorax carbo carbo
Luxembourgish: Kormoran
Lithuanian: Didysis kormoranas
Latvian: Jūras krauklis
Maori: kawau
Macedonian: Голем корморан
Malayalam: വലിയ നീർക്കാക്ക
Mongolian: Тураг гогой, Хар галуу
Mongolian (Bichig): ᠲᠣᠷᠣᠭ ᠭᠣᠭᠣᠢ
Mongolian (Bichig, Inner Mongolia): ᠬᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠬᠠᠯᠣ
Mongolian (Cyrillic, Inner Mongolia): Хар халуу
Mongolian (Transliteration): khar khaluu, kharg aluu, turag gogoi
Malay: Burung Pependang Air
Maltese: Margun
Nepali: जलेवा
Dutch: Aalscholver
Norwegian: Storskarv
Ossetian: Баклан
Polish: kormoran, kormoran (zwyczajny)
Pinyin: hǎi-tí, hēi yú-láng, lúcí, mò yā, pǔtōng lúcí, shuǐ lǎo-guā, shuǐ lǎo-yā, wū-guǐ, yì, yú lǎo-guā, yú-yīng
Portuguese: corvo-marinho
Portuguese (Portugal): Corvo-marinho-comum
Romansh: Cormoran grond
Rhaeto-Romance: Cormoran (grond)
Romanian: Cormoran mare
Russian: Баклан большой, Большой баклан
Scots: Sgarbh
Northern Sami: Skárfa
Sinhalese (Transliteration): Maha Diyakava
Slovak: kormorán veľký
Slovenian: kormoran, veliki kormoran
Albanian: Karabullaku i detit
Serbian: veliki kormoran, Veliki vranac
Swedish: storskarv
Tamil: Peria Neer Kagam
Thai: นกกาน้ำใหญ่
Thai (Transliteration): nók kaa-náam yày
Turkish: Karabatak, Үлкен суқұзғын
Tuvinian: Кара балыкчы
Ukrainian: Баклан великий
Vietnamese: Chim Cốc đế
Chinese: 乌鬼, 墨鸦, 普通鸬鹚, 水老鸦, 水老鸹, 海鹈, 鱼老鸹, 鱼鹰, 鷧, 鸬鹚, 黑鱼郎
Chinese (Traditional): 墨鴉, 普通鸕鶿, 普通鸕鷀, 水老鴉, 水老鴰, 海鵜, 烏鬼, 魚老鴰, 魚鷹, 鷧, 鸕鶿, 黑魚郎
Chinese (Taiwan, Traditional): 鸕鶿
Chinese (Taiwan): 鸬鹚

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