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SPECIES Otaria flavescens

Author:Shaw, 1800.
Citation:Gener. Zool., 1(2a parte): 260.
Common Name:South American Sealion
Type Locality:"Strait of Magellan".
Distribution:South American coasts of Argentina, Brazil (south from Recife dos Tôrres), Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Falkland Isls. Vagrant populations occasionally in Columbia, Ecuador (Galapagos Isls), Panama.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:There is some controversy regarding the validity of O. byronia (de Blainville, 1920) or O. flavescens (Shaw, 1800) (King, 1978). Rodriguez and Bastida (1993) reviewed the information and concluded that flavescens was a valid name with priority. Also see Oliva (1988) who argued for O. byronia. Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957).
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Synonyms:

    aurita (Bechstein, 1800)
    byronia (de Blainville, 1820)
    chilensis Muller, 1841
    chonotica Philippi, 1892
    fulva Philippi, 1892
    godeffroyi Peters, 1866
    hookeri Schlater, 1866
    leoninus (F. G. Cuvier, 1827)
    minor Gray, 1874
    molossina Lesson and Garnot, 1826
    molossinus (Lesson, 1827)
    pernettyi Lesson, 1828
    pygmaea Gray, 1874
    rufa Philippi, 1892
    ulloae Tschudi, 1844
    uraniae (Lesson, 1827)
    velutina Philippi, 1892

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