Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Aves > Order Pelecaniformes > Family Phalacrocoracidae > Genus Phalacrocorax

Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson, 1831)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Carbo

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phalacrocorax*	Brisson, 1760	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Carbo auritus*	Lesson, 1831	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: geoorde aalscholver sources: Avibase - the world bird database

English: double-crested cormorant sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Double-crested Cormorant sources: Charles Hussey

French: cormoran à aigrettes sources: Avibase - the world bird database

German: Ohrenscharbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: ausuotasis kormoranas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: kormoran rogaty sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: ушастый баклан sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: zlatogrli kormoran sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: cormorán orejudo sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: kulaklı karabatak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Баклан вухатий; Вухатий баклан

Literature

basis of record	Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p.
additional source	Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983
additional source	Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station.
additional source	Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.
additional source	Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
additional source	Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p.
additional source	Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p.
additional source	Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (218 publications)
GenBank (41 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson, 1831). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159059

Drs Cees Roselaar. Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson, 1831). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=96620