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Leptonychotes weddellii
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Description
Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826). Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol., 7:437.
TYPE LOCALITY: "sur les côtes des Orcades australes, situées sour 60 degrés 37 minutes de lat" [South Orkney Isl (Br. Antarct. Trust Terr.)].
DISTRIBUTION: Coastal fast ice areas of Antarctic continent and adjacent islands; occasionally north to South America, Australia, and New Zealand.
SYNONYMS: leopardina Hamilton, 1839.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Stirling (1971, Mammalian Species, 6) and Kooyman (1981).
Notes
Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 330, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Phocidae
- Genus
- Leptonychotes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesson
- Species
- weddellii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826) sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Stirling, I. 1971. Leptonychotes weddelli. Mammalian Species, 6: 1 - 5.
- Kooyman, G. L. 1981. Weddell seal: Consummate diver. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 135 pp.