A comparative analysis on cranial ontogeny of South American fur seals (Otariidae: Arctocephalus)

• Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• Main Authors: Tarnawski, Bárbara Alejandra, Flores, David Alfredo, Cassini, Guillermo Hernán, Cappozzo, Humberto Luis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc
• Subjects: ARCTOPHOCA; CRANIAL MORPHOMETRY; ONTOGENY; PINNIPEDIA; SKULL; TAXONOMY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Argentino; Hernán; Arctocephalus gazella; Mirounga leonina
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/84466

We analysed the cranial ontogeny of male Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann, 1783) (N=116), Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875) (N=69), and Arctocephalus tropicalis (Gray, 1872) (N=51) to study skull growth and its allometric patterns in the genus. We used 15 metric variables with bivariate and mu...