Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 327

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scientific name

Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897
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Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897 View in CoL . Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11:175.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Guadalupe Island, off Lower California... collected on the beach on west side of Guadalupe." [ Mexico]

DISTRIBUTION: Guadalupe Isl ( Mexico), Channel Isis (California, USA).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Threatened; IUCN - Vulnerable.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in Arctophoca; see Repenning et al. (1971). Considered conspecific with philippii by Scheffer (1958).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Otariidae

Genus

Arctocephalus

Loc

Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Arctocephalus townsendi

Merriam 1897: 175
1897
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