Pagophilus Gray 1844
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Pagophilus Gray 1844 , Zool. Voy. H. M. S. "Erebus" and "Terror", Vol. 1: 3.
Type Species: Phoca groenlandica Erxleben 1777
Synonyms: Callocephalus Heuglin 1874 ; Haliphilus J. E. Gray 1866 ; Pagomys Gray 1864 ; Pagophoca Trouessart 1904 .
Species and subspecies: 1 species:
Species Pagophilus groenlandicus ( Erxleben 1777)
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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