This article is about the seabird. For other uses, see Booby (disambiguation).
Booby
Temporal range: Miocene (Langhian) – recent[1]
Blue-footed booby displaying by raising a foot
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Suliformes
Family:
Sulidae
Genus:
Sula Brisson, 1760
Type species
Pelecanus leucogaster
Boddaert, 1783
Red-footed booby (Sula sula)
Brown booby (Sula leucogaster)
Masked booby (Sula dactylatra)
Nazca booby (Sula granti)
Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii)
Peruvian booby (Sula variegata)
Cladogram showing the species in the genus Sula.[2]
A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the family Sulidae. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.
^"Sula Brisson 1760 (booby)". PBDB. Archived from the original on 2021-08-08. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
^Patterson, S.A.; Morris-Pocock, J.A.; Friesen, V.L (2011). "A multilocus phylogeny of the Sulidae (Aves: Pelecaniformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (2): 181–191. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.021. PMID 21144905.
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