cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson) in North America. The new species differs from its
congeners in its very narrow, elongate body, long uterine field and widely separated testes.
Sequences of the nuclear rRNA gene cluster, spanning the 3′ end of the nuclear ribosomal
18S rRNA gene, internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1+ 5.8 S gene+ ITS2) and partial
28S gene (2,345 bp), were identical in specimens collected from North Dakota, Minnesota …