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).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Phocidae
Genus	Leptonychotes

Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993

1993

Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)

Lesson 1826: 437

1826

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