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Arctocephalus É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F.Cuvier, 1826

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
InF. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. vol.39 p.554

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Carnivora
family
Otariidae
genus
Arctocephalus

Name

Synonyms
Arctocephalas Cuvier, 1826
Arctophoca Peters, 1866
Euotaria Gray, 1866
Gypsophoca Gray, 1866
Halarctos Gill, 1872
Halarctus Gill, 1865
Orctocephalus Allen, 1905
Homonyms
Arctocephalus É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F.Cuvier, 1826
Common names
Southern Fur Seals in English
fur seal in English
southern fur seals in English
southern fur seals in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Aphia 2006
  2. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  3. Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2012). Pinniped taxonomy: review of currently recognized species and subspecies, and evidence used for their description. <em>Mammal Review.</em> 42(3), 207-234.
  4. Dict. Sci. Nat., 39
  5. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1962 Arctocephaliis F. Cuvier, 1826 and Cauorhinus Gray, 1859 (Mammalia, Pinnipedia): conserved by the designation of Phoca pusilla Schreber, 1775 as the type species of Arctocephalus; and Otaria Peron, 1816 and Eumetopias Gill, 1866: conserved by the designation of Phoca leonina Molina, 1782 as the type species of Otaria.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(3), 193-195 (2000)
  6. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
  7. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
  8. Rice, Dale W., 1998: Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4. ix + 231.
  9. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
  10. Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363, 1-560.
  11. Shirihai, H. (2002). A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean. Alula Press FI 510 pp.
  12. Wilson D.E. & Reeder D.A.M. (1993). Mammals species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
  16. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
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