kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Chordata >
subphylum: Vertebrata >
infraphylum: Gnathostomata >
parvphylum: Osteichthyes >
megaclass: Tetrapoda >
class: Aves >
order: Suliformes >
family: Phalacrocoracidae Reichenbach, 1849 >
genus: Microcarbo Bonaparte, 1856 >
species: Microcarbo melanoleucos (Vieillot, 1817) >