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Phalacrocorax capensis (cape cormorant)
Taxonomy
Pelecanus capensis was named by Sparrman (1788). It is extant.
It was recombined as Phalacrocorax capensis by del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Phalacrocorax capensis by del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1788 | Pelecanus capensis Sparrman |
| 2014 | Phalacrocorax capensis del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Phalacrocorax capensis Clements et al. |
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Phalacrocorax capensis Sparrman 1788 [cape cormorant]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | South Africa | Phalacrocorax capensis (115188) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Phalacrocorax capensis (177146 177147 177148) |