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Phoca vitulina Linnaeus 1758
- 1. Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange Agricultural Institute, 1447 Forest Road, Orange, New South Wales 2800 (Australia) and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052 (Australia) and Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012 (United States of America) and Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010 (Australia) stephen. jackson @ dpi. nsw. gov. au
- 2. Honorary Research Associate, Department of Vertebrates, Naturalis Biodiversity Center P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands)
- 3. Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Ville du Havre, Place du Vieux Marché, F- 76600 Le Havre (France) gabrielle. baglione @ lehavre. fr
- 4. Archéozoologie, archéobotanique: sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Case postale 55, 57 rue Cuvier F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) cecile. callou @ mnhn. fr
Description
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758
(Fig. 179)
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758: 38.
COMMON NAME. — Harbour Seal.
CURRENT NAME. — Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758.
See Wozencraft (2005: 599) and Stewart (2014: 180).
COLLECTOR/S. — Collected during the Baudin expedition.
COLLECTION LOCALITY. — No data.
COMMENT. — The species occurs along coasts of Europe [and North America].
COLLECTION DATE. — No data.
SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No data.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80277 (Fig. 179; skull).
Notes
Published as part of Jackson, Stephen M., Jansen, Justin J. F. J., Baglione, Gabrielle & Callou, Cécile, 2021, Mammals collected and illustrated by the Baudin Expedition to Australia and Timor (1800 - 1804): A review of the current taxonomy of specimens in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris and the illustrations in the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle du Havre, pp. 387-548 in Zoosystema 43 (21) on page 437, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21, http://zenodo.org/record/5142972
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- LINNAEUS C. 1758. - Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Volume 1. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 726886
- WOZENCRAFT W. C. 2005. - Order Carnivora, in WILSON D. E. & REEDER D. M. (eds) Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Third Edition: 532 - 628.
- STEWART B. S. 2014. - Family Phocidae, in WILSON D. E. & MIT- TERMEIER R. A. (eds) Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 4. Sea Mammals. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona: 120 - 183.