Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 330

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scientific name

Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)
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Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826) View in CoL . Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol., 7:437.

TYPE LOCALITY: "sur les côtes des Orcades australes, situées sour 60 degrés 37 minutes de lat" [South Orkney Isl (Br. Antarct. Trust Terr.)] .

DISTRIBUTION: Coastal fast ice areas of Antarctic continent and adjacent islands; occasionally north to South America, Australia, and New Zealand.

SYNONYMS: leopardina Hamilton, 1839.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Stirling (1971, Mammalian Species, 6) and Kooyman (1981).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Phocidae

Genus

Leptonychotes

Loc

Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)

Lesson 1826: 437
1826
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