TY  - SER
AU  - Carrera Játiva, Patricio D.
AU  - Rodríguez Hidalgo, Richar
AU  - Sevilla, Christian R.
AU  - Jiménez-Uzcátegui,G.
TI  - Gastrointestinal parasites in the Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus and the Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax harrisi in the Galápagos Islands
U1  - 598.4 22
KW  - Gastrointestinal
KW  - Gastrointestinales
KW  - Parasites
KW  - Parásitos
KW  - Mendiculus
KW  - Penguin Spheniscus
KW  - Spheniscus
KW  - Flightless Cormorant
KW  - Cormorán
KW  - Phalacrocorax
KW  - Galápagos Islands
KW  - Islas Galápagos
N2  - 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).


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