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Phoca vitulina Linnaeus 1758

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Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in mari Europaeo" restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "Mari Bothnico et Baltico", however, presently it does not occur in the Gulf of Bothnia (Bobrinski et al., 1944).

DISTRIBUTION: Kurile Isis and Kamchatka (Russia); south to Kiangsu (China); Alaska to Mexico; Greenland and E Canada to NE USA; Iceland; Britain and Europe; Seal Lakes, Ungava Peninsula (Canada); Iliamna Lake, Alaska (USA).

STATUS: IUCN - Vulnerable as P. v. stejnegeri.

SYNONYMS: antarcticus Peale, 1848; californica Gray, 1866; canina Pallas, 1811; concolor DeKay, 1842; geronimensis Allen, 1902; insularis Belkin, 1964; kurilensis McLaren, 1966; linnaei Lesson, 1828; littorea Thienemann, 1824; mellonae Doutt, 1942; pealii Gill, 1866; pribilofensis Allen, 1902; richardii Gray, 1873; scopulicola Thienemann, 1824; thienemannii Lesson, 1828; variegata Nilsson, 1820.

COMMENTS: The position of stejnegeri Allen, 1902, remains uncertain; Scheffer (1958) placed in largha Pallas, 1811; J. E. King (1983) placed in vitulina Linnaeus, 1758; and Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) suggested incertae sedis.

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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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Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3918589 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Phocidae
Genus
Phoca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
vitulina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
  • Pallas, P. S. 1811 [1831]. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium Animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicillia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. [ICZN Opinion 212 -- dates of volumes: 1 & 2: 1811; 3: 1814]. Petropoli, in officina Caes. acadamiae scientiarum. 3 vol. [official date of publ for vol 1 - 1811 impress], 1: 1 - 568.
  • 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.
  • Gill, T. 1866. Prodrome of a monograph of the pinnipeds. Proceedings of the Essex Institute, Communications, 5: 1 - 13.
  • Scheffer, V. B. 1958. Seals, sea lions, and walruses, a review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 179 pp.
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • Shaughnessy, P. D., and F. H. Fay. 1977. A review of the taxonomy and nomenclature of north Pacific harbour seals. Journal of Zoology, London, 182: 385 - 419.