| Foveaux shag | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
| Genus: | Leucocarbo |
| Species: | L. stewarti
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucocarbo stewarti (Ogilvie-Grant, 1898)
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| Synonyms | |
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Phalacrocorax stewarti | |
The Foveaux shag (Leucocarbo stewarti), together with the Otago shag formerly known as the Stewart Island shag and in its dark phase as the bronze shag, is a species of shag endemic to Stewart Island / Rakiura and Foveaux Strait, from which it takes its name.
