IRMNG - Arctocephalus Cuvier, 1826

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Arctocephalus Cuvier, 1826

IRMNG_ID

1438958 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1438958)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Otariidae Gill, 1866

Synonymised names

Arctophoca Peters, 1866 · unaccepted

Euotaria Gray, 1866 · unaccepted

Gypsophoca Gray, 1866 · unaccepted

Halarctos Gill, 1872 · unaccepted

Halarctus Gill, 1866 · unaccepted

Orctocephalus Allen, 1905 · unaccepted

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Species Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann, 1783)
Species Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson, 1828)
Species Arctocephalus galapagoensis Heller, 1904
Species Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Species Arctocephalus philippii (Peters, 1866)
Species Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber, 1775)
Species Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897
Species Arctocephalus tropicalis (Gray, 1872)
Species Arctocephalus doriferus accepted as Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber, 1775)
Species Arctocephalus hookeri J.E. Gray, 1844 accepted as Phocarctos hookeri (Gray, 1844)
Species Arctocephalus lobatus Gray, 1828 accepted as Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816)
Species Arctocephalus monteriensis Gray, 1859 accepted as Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber, 1776)
Species Arctocephalus williamsi Murray, 1877 † accepted as Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816)

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Dict. Sci. Nat., 39
page(s): 553 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier in F. Cuvier, 1826.

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier in F. Cuvier, 1826. [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Arctocephalus Cuvier, 1826. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438958 on 2024-09-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

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Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

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Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 09:43:47Z

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original description Dict. Sci. Nat., 39
page(s): 553 [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]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [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]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [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]

extant flag source Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363, 1-560. [details]

habitat flag source Aphia 2006 [details]

original description (of Orctocephalus Allen, 1905) Rep. Princeton Univ. Exp. Patag., 3 (Zool.), no. 1
page(s): 131 [details]

original description (of Arctophoca Peters, 1866) Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1866
page(s): 276 [details]

original description (of Gypsophoca Gray, 1866) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 18
page(s): 236 [details]

original description (of Halarctus Gill, 1866) Commun. Essex Inst., 5, 7
page(s): 11 [details]

original description (of Euotaria Gray, 1866) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 18
page(s): 236 [details]

original description (of Halarctos Gill, 1872) Smithson. Misc. Coll., 11, no. 230
page(s): 69 [details]

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Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006). Marine, extant (?) + fossil: Quaternary to Recent (Sepkoski 2002) [details]

Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details]

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier in F. Cuvier, 1826. [details]

Type species as cited Phoca ursina (= Phoca pusilla Schreber, 1775; not Phoca ursina Linnaeus, 1758)(International Commis [details]

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