Species profile—Microcarbo melanoleucos (little pied cormorant)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Phalacrocoracidae (Corrmorants) → Microcarbo melanoleucos (little pied cormorant)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae (Corrmorants)
- Scientific name
- Microcarbo melanoleucos (Vieillot, 1817)
- Common name
- little pied cormorant
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1261
- Synonym(s)
- Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
- Alternate name(s)
- little black and white cormorant
little shag
frilled cormorant - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- All 3
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1261
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
