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GENUS Mirounga

Author:Gray, 1827.
Citation:InGriffith et al., Anim. Kingdom, 5: 179.
Type Species:Phoca proboscidea Péron, 1816 (= Phoca leonina Linnaeus, 1758).
Comments:Revised by King (1966). Reviewed by Davidson (1929), Briggs and Morejohn (1976), and Ling and Bryden (1992).
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SPECIES angustirostris

SPECIES leonina

Synonyms:

    Macrorhinus F. G. Cuvier, 1826
    Morunga J. E. Gray, 1943
    Rhinophoca Wagler, 1830

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