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--> ORDER CARNIVORA
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--> FAMILY Otariidae
--> GENUS Arctocephalus
SPECIES Arctocephalus pusillus
| Author: | Schreber, 1775. | | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 2(13): pl. 85[1775]; see also text, 3(17):314 [1776]. | | Common Name: | Brown Fur Seal | | Type Locality: | Unknown. "Diese Gattung findet sich in den levantischen, und nach dem Herrn Grafen von Büffon, im indischen Meere"; see Allen (1880). | | Distribution: | Two allopatric populations: (1) Southern African coastal regions of Angola (vagrant populations), Namibia (Cape Cross southward), South Africa (east to Algoa Bay) (2) Coastal regions of SE Australia, Tasmania. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Repenning et al. (1971) and King (1983) included doriferus Wood-Jones, 1925; however, Scheffer (1958) considered it a distinct species. |
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