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| Booby Temporal range: Miocene (Langhian) – recent[1]
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| Blue-footed booby displaying by raising a foot | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | Sulidae |
| Genus: | Sula Brisson, 1760 |
| Type species | |
| Pelecanus leucogaster Boddaert, 1783
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| 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. Bibcode:2011MolPE..58..181P. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.021. PMID 21144905.