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SPECIES Arctocephalus tropicalis

Author:J. E. Gray, 1872.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872: 653, 659.
Common Name:Subantarctic Fur Seal
Type Locality:"North coast of Australia." This is in error, fixed by King (1959a) to "’Australasian sea’...to include the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam as these are the islands nearest to Australia...".
Distribution:Islands north of Antarctic Convergence (Tristan, Gough, Marion, Crozet, Amsterdam, Macquarie Isls).
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
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    elegans Peters, 1876

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