Neophoca Gray 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 : 592

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scientific name	Neophoca Gray 1866
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Neophoca Gray 1866 View in CoL

Neophoca Gray 1866 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 18: 231.

Type Species: Arctocephalus lobatus Gray 1828

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Neophoca cinerea (Péron 1816)

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