Urile
Urile | |
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Pelagic cormorant, U. pelagicus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Suliformes |
Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
Genus: | Urile Bonaparte, 1855 |
Type species | |
Urile urile | |
Species | |
Urile penicillatus |
Urile is a genus of birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae, commonly known as North Pacific cormorants. It contains 3 extant and 1 recently extinct species, all of which are or were found in the North Pacific Ocean.
Members of this genus were formerly classified within the genus Phalacrocorax, but a 2014 study found the members of this clade to represent a sister genus to Phalacrocorax, and reclassified them in the distinct genus Urile.[1] The IOC followed this classification in 2021.[2] Urile is thought to have split from Phalacrocorax 8.9 - 10.3 million years ago.[1]
List of species[]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Urile penicillatus | Brandt's cormorant | Pacific Coast of North America; resident from southern British Columbia south to Baja California, nonbreeding range extends north to Gulf of Alaska and south to Sinaloa |
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Urile urile | Red-faced cormorant | coastlines of North Pacific Ocean of both Asia and North America, from Hokkaido east to the Gulf of Alaska |
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Urile pelagicus | Pelagic cormorant | coastlines of North Pacific Ocean of both Asia and North America, breeding range from eastern Russia east to western North America as far south as the Coronado Islands; wintering range extends as far south as Taiwan on the western end of range and central Baja California on the eastern end of range |
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†Urile perspicillatus | Spectacled cormorant | (formerly) Bering Island, Russia; potentially other islands in the Commander Islands, as well as the parts of the adjacent Kamchatka Peninsula. Now extinct. |
References[]
- ^ a b "Classification of the cormorants of the world". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 79: 249–257. 2014-10-01. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.020. ISSN 1055-7903.
- ^ "Taxonomic Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-07-28.
Categories:
- Urile
- Bird genera
- Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte