| Spectacled Cormorant | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | Phalacrocoacidae |
| Genus: | Urile |
| Binomial name | |
| † Urile perspicillatus Pallas, 1881 | |
The Spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant (Urile perspicillatus) is an extinct species of cormorant that lived on Bering Island and possibly the Komandorski and Kamchatka islands and the Russian mainland. Its prehistoric range was also within Japan due to fossils found in 2018. It was the largest cormorant known to have existed.
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