Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier 1826

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 : 590

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Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier 1826
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Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier 1826 View in CoL

Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier 1826 View in CoL , in: F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., Vol. 39: 554.

Type Species: Phoca pusilla Schreber 1775

Synonyms: Arctophoca Peters 1866 ; Euotaria Gray 1866 ; Gypsophoca Gray 1866 ; Halarctus Gill 1866 .

Species and subspecies: 8 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann 1783)

Species Arctocephalus forsteri Lesson 1828

Species Arctocephalus galapagoensis Heller 1904

Species Arctocephalus gazella Peters 1875

Species Arctocephalus philippii Peters 1866

Species Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber 1775)

Subspecies Arctocephalus pusillus subsp. pusillus Schreber 1775

Subspecies Arctocephalus pusillus subsp. doriferus Wood Jones 1925

Species Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam 1897

Species Arctocephalus tropicalis J. E. Gray 1872

Discussion: Reviewed by King (1954) and Repenning et al. (1971) who included Arctophoca Peters, 1866 . Van Gelder (1977 b) considered Zalophus and Arctocephalus congeneric. Nearly all species of Arctocephalus are distributed allopatrically ( Rice, 1998). Synonyms allocated according to Gardner and Robbins (1998). Allen (1905) discussed confusion in designation of type species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Otariidae

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Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier 1826

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Arctocephalus

E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier 1826: 554
1826
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