Callorhinus ursinus
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Callorhinus ursinus (Linnaeus 1758)
[Phoca] ursina Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 37.
Type Locality: "in Camschatcæ maritimus inter Asiam and Americam proximam, primario in infula Beringri," restricted by Thomas (1911 a) to "Bering Island.".
Vernacular Names: Northern Fur Seal.
Synonyms: Callorhinus alascanus (Jordan and Clark 1898); Callorhinus californianus (Gray 1866); Callorhinus curilensis (Jordan and Clark 1899); Callorhinus cynocephala (Walbaum 1792); Callorhinus krachenninikowii (Lesson 1828); Callorhinus mimica (Tilesius 1835); Callorhinus nigra (Pallas 1811).
Distribution: North Pacific coastal regions in Canada, China (vagrant to Shandong), Japan, Mexico (costs of Baja California), Russia (Okhotsk and Bering Seas, Commander and Pribilof Isls), USA (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, S California).
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.
Discussion: Subspecies not recognized, following Taylor et al. (1955) and Rice (1998).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Otariidae
- Genus
- Callorhinus
- Species
- ursinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Callorhinus ursinus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- 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.
- 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.
- Jordan, D. S., and G. A. Clark. 1898. The history, condition, and needs of the herd of fur seals resorting to the Pribilof Islands, pt. 1, 249 pp., in The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the North Pacific Ocean (D. S. Jordan). United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., U. S. Treasury Document no. 2017: 4 volumes.
- 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.
- Taylor, F. H. C., M. Fujinaga, and F. Wilke. 1955. Distribution and food habits of the fur seals of the North Pacific Ocean; Report of cooperative investigations by the Governments of Canada, Japan, and the United States of America, February-July 1952. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D. C., 86 pp.
- Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world: Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Special Publication, 4: 1 - 230.