''Urile'' is a genus of birds in the family

Phalacrocoracidae Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the IOC adopted a consensus taxonomy of seven gen ...

, commonly known as North Pacific cormorants. It contains 3 extant and 1 recently extinct species, all of which are or were found in the

North Pacific Ocean North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' i ...

. Members of this genus were formerly classified within the genus '' Phalacrocorax''. Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014, the genus ''Phalacrocorax'' was split and these species were moved to the resurrected genus ''Urile'' that had been introduced in 1856 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the red-faced cormorant as the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

. ''Urile'' is thought to have split from ''Phalacrocorax'' 8.9 - 10.3 million years ago. The genus contains four species, of which one is now extinct.

List of species

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q82980656 Urile Bird genera Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte