IRMNG - Leptonychotes Gill, 1872

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Leptonychotes Gill, 1872

IRMNG_ID

1264131 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1264131)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Phocidae Gray, 1821

Synonymised names

Leptonyx Gray, 1837 · unaccepted

Poecilophoca Lydekker in Flower & Lydekker, 1891 · unaccepted

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Species Leptonychotes weddelli (Lesson, 1826)
Species Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 11, no. 230
page(s): 70 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Leptonyx Gray 1837 (Nomen. Zool.).

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Leptonyx Gray 1837 (Nomen. Zool.). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Leptonychotes Gill, 1872. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1264131 on 2025-01-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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original description Smithson. Misc. Coll., 11, no. 230
page(s): 70 [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

extant flag source SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source Aphia 2006 [details]

original description (of Leptonyx Gray, 1837) Mag. Nat. Hist., (N. S.) 1
page(s): 582 [details]

original description (of Poecilophoca Lydekker in Flower & Lydekker, 1891) in Flower & Lydekker, Intr. Mamm.
page(s): 605 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006) [details]

Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details]

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Leptonyx Gray 1837 (Nomen. Zool.). [details]

Type species as cited Otaria weddellii Lesson, 1826, by monotypy. [details]

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