Arctocephalus pusillus
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Description
Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber, 1775). Die Säugethiere, 2(13):pl. 85 (1775]; text, 3(17):314 [1776].
TYPE LOCALITY: Unknown. "Diese Gattung findet sich in den levantischen, und nach dem Herrn Grafen von Büffon, im indischen Meere"; discussion of type locality in Allen (1880).
DISTRIBUTION: SW Africa from Angola to Algoa Bay; SE Australia; Tasmania.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
SYNONYMS: antarctica Thunberg, 1811; compressa Gray, 1874; delalandii Gray, 1859; doriferus Wood Jones, 1925; nivosus Gray, 1868; parva Boddaert, 1785; peronii Desmarest, 1820; schisthyperoes Turner, 1868; tasmanicus Scott and Lord, 1926.
COMMENTS: Repenning et al. (1971) and J. E. King (1983) included doriferus Wood-Jones, 1925; however, Scheffer (1958) considered it a distinct species.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Otariidae
- Genus
- Arctocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Schreber
- Species
- pusillus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber, 1775) sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Allen, J. A. 1880. History of North American pinnipeds: A monograph of the walruses, seal-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America. United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Miscellaneous Publication, 12: 1 - 785.
- Gray, J. E. 1874. Description of a new species of cat (Felis badia) from Sarawak. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1874: 322 - 323.
- Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus animalium, volumen 1: Sistens quadrupedia huc usque nota, erorumque varietates. C. R. Hake, Rotterdam, 174 pp.
- Desmarest, A. G. 1820, 1822. Mammalogie ou description des espece de mammiferes. Encyclopedie Methodique. Agasse, Paris, 555 pp., 66 plates.
- Repenning, C. A., R. S. Peterson, and C. L. Hubbs. 1971. Contributions to the systematics of the southern fur seals, with particular reference to the Juan Fernandez and Guadalupe species. Antarctic Research Series, 18: 1 - 34.
- Scheffer, V. B. 1958. Seals, sea lions, and walruses, a review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 179 pp.