Arctocephalus tropicalis J. E. Gray 1872

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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Arctocephalus tropicalis J. E. Gray 1872 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872: 653.

Type Locality: "North coast of Australia." This is in error, fixed by King (1959 a) to "’Australasian sea’...to include the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam as these are the islands nearest to Australia..." .

Vernacular Names: Subantarctic Fur Seal.

Synonyms: Arctocephalus elegans Peters 1876 .

Distribution: Islands north of Antarctic Convergence ( Tristan, Gough, Marion, Crozet, Amsterdam, Macquarie Isls).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

References

King, J. E. 1959 a. The northern and southern populations of Arctocephalus gazella. Mammalia, 23: 19 - 40.

Peters, W. C. H. 1876. Uber die Pelzrobbe von der Inseln St. Paul und Amsterdam. Monatsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876: 315 - 316.