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GENUS Neophoca

Author:Gray, 1866.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 18: 231.
Type Species:Arctocephalus lobatus Gray, 1828 (= Otaria cinerea Péron, 1816).
Comments:Sivertsen (1954) and Scheffer (1958) considered Neophoca congeneric with Phocarctos. However, it was retained as separate by King (1960, 1983), Rice (1977), Barnes (1989), and Wynen et al. (2001).
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