Microcarbo


Microcarbo is a genus of fish-eating birds, known as cormorants, of the family Phalacrocoracidae. The genus was formerly subsumed within Phalacrocorax.
Microcarbo has been recognized as a valid genus by the IOC's World Bird List on the basis of work by Siegel-Causey, Kennedy et al., and Christidis and Boles.
As suggested by the name, this genus contains the smallest of the world's cormorants.
The genus contains five extant species.

List of species