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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
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--> FAMILY Phocidae
GENUS Phoca
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 37. | | Type Species: | Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758, by tautonomy. | | 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). This was also supported by Bininda-Emonds et al.’s (1999) "complete data" phylogeny. 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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