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GENUS Pagophilus
| Author: | Gray, 1844. | | Citation: | Zool. Voy. H. M. S. "Erebus" and "Terror,", 1: 3. | | Type Species: | Phoca groenlandica Erxleben, 1777. | | Comments: | Burns and Fay (1970), Rice (1977), McDermid and Bonner (1975), Gromov and Baranova (1981), King (1983), and Wyss (1988) considered Phoca, Pusa, Histriophoca, and Pagophilus a monophyletic group. Cladistic analysis based on morphology and mtDNA reveal two clades, Pagophilus+Histriophoca and Phoca+Pusa+Halichoerus (Carr and Perry, 1998; Mouchaty et al., 1995; Muizon, 1982b; Perry et al., 1995; Rice, 1998). Burns and Fay (1970) and McDermid and Bonner (1975) argued that these differences should be recognized only at the subgeneric level. |
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| Offspring: SPECIES groenlandicus | Synonyms:
Callocephalus Heuglin, 1874
Haliphilus J. E. Gray, 1866
Pagomys Gray, 1864
Pagophoca Trouessart, 1904
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