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GENUS Arctocephalus

Author:E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 1826.
Citation:InF. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., 39: 554.
Type Species:"Phoca ursina " (= Phoca pusilla Schreber, 1775; not Phoca ursina Linnaeus, 1758)(International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2000).
Comments:Reviewed by King (1954) and Repenning et al. (1971) who included Arctophoca Peters, 1866. Van Gelder (1977b) 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.
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Offspring:

SPECIES australis

SPECIES forsteri

SPECIES galapagoensis

SPECIES gazella

SPECIES philippii

SPECIES pusillus

SUBSPECIES pusillus

SUBSPECIES doriferus

SPECIES townsendi

SPECIES tropicalis

Synonyms:

    Arctophoca Peters, 1866
    Euotaria Gray, 1866
    Gypsophoca Gray, 1866
    Halarctus Gill, 1866

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