Birds of India - The New Synopsis

A complete checklist of bird species and subspecies found in India

Suliformes (Cormorants, Boobies, Frigatebirds, and Darters)

Sulidae (Gannets and Boobies)

• Sula Brisson, 1760 Ornithologia sive synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumaque varietates 1 p.60;6, p.494 Sula Brisson ; Type by tautonymy = Pelecanus leucogaster Boddaert, 1783
  • 350. Red-footed Booby Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766)
    Original Description: Pelecanus Sula Linnaeus, 1766 Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.218
    IUCN: Least Concern. WLPA: Schedule-II.
    Notes: See Gandhe (2014, IB 9 (5): 137), Lopes & Kasambe (2016, IB 12 (2&3): 86), Rodrigues & Roshnath (2020, IB 16(2): 57).
    • 350a. Sula sula rubripes Gould, 1838 [HB#24]
      Original Description: Sula rubripes Gould, 1838 A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands pt4 App.p.7
      Distribution: Vagrant. Shored birds reported dead or alive from the coasts of Mumbai, Goa, Kerala, and W Bengal.
      Specimens: BNHS
  
  
  • 351. Brown Booby Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783)
    Original Description: Pelecanus Leucogaster Boddaert, 1783 Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton p.57
    IUCN: Least Concern. WLPA: Schedule-II.
    • 351a. Sula leucogaster plotus (Forster, 1844) [HB#25]
      Original Description: Pelecanus Plotus Forster, 1844 Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto, collegit, observavit et delineavit (etc.) p.278
      Distribution: Vagrant. Reported from the coasts of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala as well as Lakshadweep.
      Specimens: NHMUK
      Notes: The BNHS specimen (#15034) is a misidentified Masked Booby juvenile. The NHMUK specimen (#1894.6.20.107) from Lakshadweep (vide Hume) has been correctly identified.
  
  
  • 352. Masked Booby Sula dactylatra Lesson, 1831
    Original Description: Sula dactylatra Lesson, 1831 Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux livr.8 p.601
    IUCN: Least Concern. WLPA: Schedule-II.
    • 352a. Sula dactylatra melanops Hartlaub, 1859 [HB#23]
      Original Description: Sula melanops Hartlaub, 1859 Ibis p.351 pl.10 fig.2,3
      Distribution: Off-shore W coast and Lakshadweep.
      Specimens: BNHS, TNHM, CMFRI, FTLB
    • [Sula dactylatra personata Gould, 1846 ]
      Original Description: Sula personata Gould, 1846 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part 14, no.161 p.21
      Distribution: Andaman Sea.
      Notes: Observations from Andaman Sea (Gokulakrishnan & Sivaperuman 2017, JBNHS 114: 39) may relate to this subspecies.