Phocarctos Peters 1866

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 593

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scientific name	Phocarctos Peters 1866
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Phocarctos Peters 1866 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866: 269.

Type Species: Otaria hookeri Gray 1844

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Phocarctos hookeri (Gray 1844)

Discussion: Sivertsen (1954) and Scheffer (1958) considered Phocarctos congeneric with Neophoca , however, it was retained as separate by Clark (1873 a), King (1960, 1983), Rice (1977), Barnes (1989), and Wynen et al. (2001).