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GENUS Phocarctos
Author: | Peters, 1866. | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866: 269. | Type Species: | Otaria hookeri (=Arctocephalus hookeri Gray, 1844). | Comments: | Sivertsen (1954) and Scheffer (1958) considered Phocarctos congeneric with Neophoca, however, it was retained as separate by Clark (1873a), King (1960, 1983), Rice (1977), Barnes (1989), and Wynen et al. (2001). |
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