Gastrointestinal parasites in the Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus and the Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax harrisi in the Galápagos Islands.
Carrera Játiva, Patricio D.
Gastrointestinal parasites in the Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus and the Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax harrisi in the Galápagos Islands.
The Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus and the Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax harrisi are endemic to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Harris 1973). Both species have particular characteristics that make them unique. The former is the most northerly of penguin species (Boersma et al. 2013); the latter is the only extant flightless cormorant and has a sequential polyandrous mating system (Valle 1994). The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed them as endangered and vulnerable, respectively, due to their limited geographical distribution and small fluctuating populations (IUCN 2012).
English
2090
Gastrointestinal. Gastrointestinales. Parasites. Parásitos. Mendiculus. Penguin Spheniscus. Spheniscus. Flightless Cormorant. Cormorán. Phalacrocorax. Galápagos Islands. Islas Galápagos.
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Gastrointestinal parasites in the Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus and the Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax harrisi in the Galápagos Islands.
The Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus and the Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax harrisi are endemic to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Harris 1973). Both species have particular characteristics that make them unique. The former is the most northerly of penguin species (Boersma et al. 2013); the latter is the only extant flightless cormorant and has a sequential polyandrous mating system (Valle 1994). The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed them as endangered and vulnerable, respectively, due to their limited geographical distribution and small fluctuating populations (IUCN 2012).
English
2090
Gastrointestinal. Gastrointestinales. Parasites. Parásitos. Mendiculus. Penguin Spheniscus. Spheniscus. Flightless Cormorant. Cormorán. Phalacrocorax. Galápagos Islands. Islas Galápagos.
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