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Phoca hispida Schreber 1775

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Description

Phoca hispida Schreber, 1775. Die Säugethiere, 2(13):pl. 86 (1775]; text, 3(17):312[1776].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Man fängt ihn auf den Küsten von Grönland und Labrader".

DISTRIBUTION: Arctic Ocean, Okhotsk, Bering, and Baltic Seas; Finland (Saimaa Lake); Russia (Ladoga Lake); Canda (Nettilling Lake, Baffin Isl).

STATUS: IUCN - Endangered as P. h. saimensis.

SYNONYMS: annellata Nilsson, 1820; beaufortiana Anderson, 1943; birulai Smirnov, 1929; botnica Gmelin, 1788; foetida Fabricius, 1776; gichigensis Allen, 1902; krascheninikovi Naumov and Smirnov, 1936; ladogensis Nordquist, 1899; octonata Kutorga, 1839; pomororum Smirnov, 1929; pygmaea Zukowsky, 1914; saimensis Nordquist, 1899; soperi Anderson, 1943.

COMMENTS: Placed in Pusa Scopoli, 1777, followed by Scheffer (1958). Mohr (1952) described successful mating in captivity between Phoca hispida and Halichoerus grypus.

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 332, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/41263629C31C7449FEC6FDEFFDE517C0

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Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Phocidae
Genus
Phoca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Schreber
Species
hispida
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phoca hispida Schreber, 1775 sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Anderson, R. M., and A. L. Rand. 1943. Variation in the porcupine (Genus Erethizon) in Canada. Canadian Journal of Research, section D, 21: 292 - 309.
  • Allen, J. A. 1902. Mammal names proposed by Oken in his " Lehrbuch der Zoologie ". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 16: 373 - 379.
  • Scopoli, G. A. 1777. Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium, Pragae, 506 pp.
  • Scheffer, V. B. 1958. Seals, sea lions, and walruses, a review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 179 pp.
  • Mohr, E. 1952. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Mahnenrobben. Zoologische Garten, 19: 98 - 112.