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GENUS Leptonychotes

Author:Gill, 1872.
Citation:Smithson. Misc. Coll., 11: 70.
Type Species:Otaria weddellii Lesson, 1826, by monotypy.
Comments:Replacement name for Leptonyx Gray (1837), which is preoccupied by Leptonyx Swainson (1821).
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SPECIES weddellii

Synonyms:

    Leptonyx Gray, 1837
    Poecilophoca Lydekker, 1891

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