The little pied cormorant, little shag or kawaupaka is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, Timor Leste, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the subantarctic. It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black above and white below with a yellow bill and small crest, although a mostly black white-throated form predominates in New Zealand. Three subspecies are recognised. Until recently most authorities referred to this species as Phalacrocorax melanoleucos. Source: Wikipedia
Citation:
(Vieillot, LJP 1817)
Reference:
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. nouv. éd.
8 p.88
Protonym:
Hydrocorax melanoleucos
Type locality:
'Australasie' = New South Wales, fide Mathews, 1912, Novit. Zool., 18, p. 241.
Link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18035203
Avibase ID:
DF8F84C38027C3DE
Avibase ID:
avibase-DF8F84C3
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/DF8F84C3
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 823996
Geographic range:
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 00: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
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Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Christidis and Boles (2008): Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds: Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Cormoran pie ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993): Cormoran pie ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements 1st edition: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2021: Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2022: Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2023: Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2024: Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements 3rd edition: Little Pied Cormorant ( Halietor melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements 4th edition: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements 5th edition (as published): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
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Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
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Clements, version 2019: Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
eBird version 1.50: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
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Howard and Moore 2nd edition: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
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Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
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Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Little Pied Cormorant ( Microcarbo melanoleucos) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
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Morony, Bock and Farrand: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Oriental Bird Club: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Phalacrocorax melanoleucos [version 1] |
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Haliëtor melanoleucos [version 1] |
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Phalacrocorax melanoleucos [version 1] |
Sibley and Monroe (1993): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998): Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0: Little Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) [version 1] |
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Phalacrocorax melanoleucos [version 1] |
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Microcarbo melanoleucos [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: full species
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