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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Phocidae
GENUS Pusa
| Author: | Scopoli, 1771. | | Citation: | Introductio ad historiam naturalem: 490. | | Type Species: | Phoca foetica Fabricius, 1776 (= Phoca hispida Schreber, 1775) by subsequent designation by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). | | 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). 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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