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).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Otariidae
Genus	Arctocephalus

Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993

1993

Arctocephalus townsendi

Merriam 1897: 175

1897

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