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

TYPE SPECIES: Arctocephalus lobatus Gray, 1828 (= Otaria cinerea Péron, 1816).

COMMENTS: Sivertsen (1954) and Scheffer (1958) considered Neophoca congeneric with Phocarctos; however, it was retained as separate by J. E. King (1960, 1983), Rice (1977), and Barnes (1989).