Spectacled cormorant
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phylum | Chordata | The spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant (Phalacrocorax perspicillatus) is an extinct marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabited Bering Island and possibly other places in the Komandorski Islands and the nearby coast of Kamchatka in the far northeast of Russia. It is the largest species of cormorant known to have existed.
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clade | Diapsida | |
Class | Aves | |
order | Suliformes | |
family | Phalacrocoracidae | |
genus | Phalacrocorax | |
species | P. perspicillatus |