Pusa Scopoli 1771
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11345189 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/89F12601-622F-E2B1-61A7-5751607ACBBC |
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Guido |
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Pusa Scopoli 1771 |
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Pusa Scopoli 1771 View in CoL , Introductio ad historiam naturalem: 490.
Type Species: Phoca foetica Fabricius 1776
Synonyms: Caspiopusa Dybowski 1929 .
Species and subspecies: 3 species with 5 subspecies:
Species Pusa caspica Gmelin 1788
Species Pusa hispida Schreber 1775
Subspecies Pusa hispida subsp. hispida Schreber 1775
Subspecies Pusa hispida subsp. botnica Gmelin 1788
Subspecies Pusa hispida subsp. ladogensis Nordquiest 1899
Subspecies Pusa hispida subsp. ochotensis Pallas 1811
Subspecies Pusa hispida subsp. saimensis Nordquist 1899
Species Pusa sibirica Gmelin 1788
Discussion: Burns and Fay (1970), Rice (1977), McDermid and Bonner (1975), Gromov and Baranova (1981), King (1983), and Wyss (1988) considered Phoca , Pusa , Histriophoca , and Pagophilus a monophyletic group. Cladistic analysis based on morphology and mtDNA reveal two clades, Pagophilus + Histriophoca and Phoca + Pusa + Halichoerus ( Carr and Perry, 1998; Mouchaty et al., 1995; Muizon, 1982 b; Perry et al., 1995; Rice, 1998). Burns and Fay (1970) and McDermid and Bonner (1975) argued that these differences should be recognized only at the subgeneric level.
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