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Microcarbo africanus (long-tailed cormorant)
Taxonomy
Pelecanus africanus was named by Gmelin (1789). It is extant.
It was recombined as Phalacrocorax africanus by Goodman (1999); it was recombined as Phalacrocorax (Microcarbo) africanus by Hume (2013); it was recombined as Microcarbo africanus by del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Phalacrocorax africanus by Goodman (1999); it was recombined as Phalacrocorax (Microcarbo) africanus by Hume (2013); it was recombined as Microcarbo africanus by del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1789 | Pelecanus africanus Gmelin |
| 1893 | Plotus nanus Newton and Gadow p. 288 figs. Pl 34, figs 1-5 |
| 1933 | Plotus nanus Lambrecht p. 303 |
| 1999 | Phalacrocorax africanus Goodman |
| 2013 | Phalacrocorax (Microcarbo) africanus Hume p. 217 |
| 2014 | Microcarbo africanus del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Microcarbo africanus Clements et al. |
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Microcarbo africanus Gmelin 1789 [long-tailed cormorant]
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Invalid names: Plotus nanus Newton and Gadow 1893 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Egypt | Phalacrocorax africanus (208788) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Madagascar | Plotus nanus (195021) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Phalacrocorax africanus (22066) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Madagascar | Phalacrocorax africanus (95827) | |
| Holocene | Mauritius | Plotus nanus (194025) |