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Cormorants and shags Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Subclass:	Neornithes
Infraclass:	Neoaves
Order:	Pelecaniformes
Suborder:	Sulae
Family:	Phalacrocoracidae Reichenbach, 1850
Genus:	Phalacrocorax (but see text) Brisson, 1760
Species
1-8, see text
Synonyms
Australocorax Lambrecht, 1931 Compsohalieus B. Brewer & Ridgway, 1884 Cormoranus Baillon, 1834 Dilophalieus Coues, 1903 Ecmeles Gistel, 1848 Euleucocarbo Voisin, 1973 Halietor Heine, 1860 Hydrocorax Vieillot, 1819 (non Brisson, 1760: preoccupied) Hypoleucus Reichenbach, 1852 Leucocarbo Bonaparte, 1857 Microcarbo Bonaparte, 1856 Miocorax Lambrecht, 1933 Nannopterum Sharpe, 1899 Nesocarbo Voisin, 1973 Notocarbo Siegel-Causey, 1988 Pallasicarbo Coues, 1903 Paracorax Lambrecht, 1933 Poikilocarbo Boetticher, 1935 Pliocarbo Tugarinov, 1940 Stictocarbo Bonaparte, 1855 Viguacarbo Coues, 1903 (but see text)

Things to note:

• Usually the taxobox heading is the common name of the family—in this case, "Cormorants"— in bold type. Note the plural. The article title, however, should always be in the singular.
• If there is no suitable common name, use the scientific name instead.
• Notice that the last entry in the list of genera (in this example it's Leucocarbo) does not include the new line code <br>. All the other ones do.
• Genera can be listed by name; if more than 5-10 genera exist, use subfamilies if these have articles already. Otherwise give the approximate number of genera ("About one dozen" for example). If a systematics section exists in the article, you can list the genera or subfamilies alphabetically. Otherwise, use a taxonomic list.
• Watch out for taxonomic issues. It's a minefield out there!

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{{Taxobox
| name = Cormorants and shags
|fossil_range=[[Late Cretaceous]] - Recent
| image = Cormorant-20070224-034.jpg
| image_caption = [[Little Pied Cormorant]]<br/>
   ''Phalacrocorax melanoleucos''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Aves]]
| subclassis = [[Neornithes]]
| infraclassis = [[Neoaves]]
| ordo = [[Pelecaniformes]]
| subordo = [[Sulae]]
| familia = '''Phalacrocoracidae'''
| familia_authority = [[Ludwig Reichenbach|Reichenbach]], [[1850]]
| genus = '''''Phalacrocorax''''' (but see text)
| genus_authority = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]], [[1760]]
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = 
1-8, see text
| synonyms =
''Australocorax'' <small>[[Kálmán Lambrecht|Lambrecht]], [[1931]]</small><br />
''Compsohalieus'' <small>B. Brewer & [[Robert Ridgway|Ridgway]], [[1884]]</small><br />
''Cormoranus'' <small>[[Louis Antoine Francois Baillon|Baillon]], [[1834]]</small><br />
''Dilophalieus'' <small>[[Elliott Coues|Coues]], [[1903]]</small><br />
''Ecmeles'' <small>Gistel, [[1848]]</small><br />
''Euleucocarbo'' <small>Voisin, [[1973]]</small><br />
''Halietor'' <small>Heine, [[1860]]</small><br />
''Hydrocorax'' <small>[[Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], [[1819]] (''non'' Brisson, 1760: [[Buceros|preoccupied]])</small><br />
''Hypoleucus'' <small>[[Ludwig Reichenbach|Reichenbach]], [[1852]]</small><br />
''Leucocarbo'' <small>[[Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], [[1857]]</small><br />
''Microcarbo'' <small>Bonaparte, [[1856]]</small><br />
''Miocorax'' <small>Lambrecht, [[1933]]</small><br />
''Nannopterum'' <small>[[Richard Bowdler Sharpe|Sharpe]], [[1899]]</small><br />
''Nesocarbo'' <small>Voisin, 1973</small><br />
''Notocarbo'' <small>Siegel-Causey, [[1988]]</small><br />
''Pallasicarbo'' <small>Coues, 1903</small><br />
''Paracorax'' <small>Lambrecht, 1933</small><br />
''Poikilocarbo'' <small>[[Hans von Boetticher|Boetticher]], [[1935]]</small><br />
''Pliocarbo'' <small>Tugarinov, [[1940]]</small><br />
''Stictocarbo'' <small>Bonaparte, [[1855]]</small><br />
''Viguacarbo'' <small>Coues, 1903</small><br />
(but see text)
}}