Antarctic shag

Antarctic shag
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Suliformes
Family:	Phalacrocoracidae
Genus:	Phalacrocorax
Species:	P. bransfieldensis
Binomial name
Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis Murphy, 1936
Synonyms
Phalacrocorax atriceps bransfieldensis Leucocarbo bransfieldensis

The Antarctic shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis), is a marine cormorant native to the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic peninsula in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Taxonomy and distribution

The Antarctic shag is one of the blue-eyed shags, sometimes placed in the genera Leucocarbo, and a subspecies of the imperial shag. It is often treated as a full species.