Classification

Order:
  Pelecaniformes
Family:
  Sulidae
Genus:
   Sula
Scientific:
  Sula leucogaster

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Original description

Citation:
  (Boddaert, P 1783)

Reference:
   Table Planches Enlum. D'Aubenton

Protonym:
  Pelecanus Leucogaster

Type locality:
  Cayenne.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88617#page/79/mode/1up

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Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  C8AAB09E1E201B25

Avibase ID:
  avibase-C8AAB09E

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/C8AAB09E

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Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 174704

Geographic range:

• Sula leucogaster: widespread tropical and subtropical ocean islands; Cape Verde Islands (southern Macaronesia), Boatswain Bird Island (just off Ascension, south-central South Atlantic Ocean), Alcatraz Island (west of northwestern Guinea), and Gulf of Guinea islands, Caribbean islands off Yucatán Peninsula and Honduras to Panama and southwestern Colombia, Bahamas and Cayman Islands to Lesser Antilles, islands north of Venezuela and Tobago and off Brazil, islands off Somalia and Socotra, Aldabra, and Madagascar, and Chagos Archipelago, Cocos (Keeling), and Christmas islands (tropical Indian Ocean), islands off northern Australia, Tench (St. Matthias group, north-central Bismarck Archipelago), remote islands in Melanesia; many islands of southern Japan including Kyushu; Taiwan; offshore islands of Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia, in Flores and Banda seas, from Marianas and Palau through Hawaiian Islands and Gambier Islands (eastern Tuamotu Archipelago; eastern Polynesia)
• Sula leucogaster leucogaster: islands in Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and tropical Atlantic
• Sula leucogaster plotus: breeds on islands in the Red Sea, tropical Indian Ocean, and tropical western and central Pacific Ocean
• Sula brewsteri etesiaca: Pacific islands off Central America and Colombia