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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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