Biology:Urile

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Short description: Genus of birds

Urile
CORMORANT, PELAGIC (1-9-10) morro bay, ca -06 (4260636316).jpg
Pelagic cormorant, U. pelagicus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Suliformes
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Urile
Bonaparte, 1856
Type species
Pelecanus urile
Species

Urile penicillatus
Urile urile
Urile pelagicus
Urile perspicillatus

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. Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014,[1] the genus Phalacrocorax was split and these species were moved to the resurrected genus Urile that had been introduced in 1856 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the red-faced cormorant as the type species.[2][3][4] Urile is thought to have split from Phalacrocorax 8.9 - 10.3 million years ago.[1] The genus contains four species, of which one is now extinct.[4]

List of species

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Brandt's Cormorant (32273177994).jpg 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
Red-faced Cormorant on Pribilof Islands, 5-1979 2.jpg Urile urile Red-faced cormorant coastlines of North Pacific Ocean of both Asia and North America, from Hokkaido east to the Gulf of Alaska
Pelagic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus) at Monterey Bay.jpg 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
ExtbPallusCormorantovw.jpg 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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kennedy, Martyn; Spencer, Hamish G. (2014). "Classification of the cormorants of the world". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 249–257. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.020. PMID 24994028. 
  2. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1856). "Excusion dans les divers Musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers (suite)" (in French). Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 43: 571–579 [574]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1211110. 
  3. Chesser, R.T.; Billerman, S.M.; Burns, K.J.; Cicero, C.; Dunn, J.L.; Hernández-Baños, B.E.; Kratter, A.W.; Lovette, I.J. et al. (2021). "Sixty-second Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American Birds". Ornithology 138 (ukab037). doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukab037. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (August 2022). "Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, darters, cormorants". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/storks/. 

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