Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Sula dactylatra
Piquero de Nazca, Nazca booby
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Suliformes
Family
Sulidae
Genus
Sula
Species
dactylatra
Taxon category: Accepted
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- Hickin, N. (1979) Animal life of the Galapagos. Ferundune Books, Faringdon, U.K., 236 pp.
- Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G. Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2002) Marine birds. Reserva marina de Galápagos. Línea base de la biodiversidad. Danulat, E. & G.J. Edgar (eds.). Fundación Charles Darwin/Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador. p. 343–372.
- Patterson, S.A. Morris-Pocock, J.A. & V.L. Friesen (2011) A multilocus phylogeny of the Sulidae (Aves: Pelecaniformes) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 181–191
- Salvin, O. (1876) On the avifauna of the Galápagos Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 9: 447-510.
- Swarth, H.S. (1931) The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 18: 1-299.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Sula dactylatra", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9089. Accessed 1 November 2026.