Summary: | Figure 12. Size range of extant Monachinae, vs. small-sized Neogene southern phocids (below dashed line). Extant total length values from King (1983); where different values for each sex was availble, the larger sex is shown. Estimated total length of Homiphoca capensis from Churchill et al. (2015) and Australophoca changorum from Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2016). Estimated total length for Kawas benegasorum and NMV P232849 from this study. Light grey indicates monachines, dark grey phocines. Asterix (*) indicates species within, or from the margins of, the Southern Ocean. Published as part of Rule, James P, Adams, Justin W & Fitzgerald, Erich M G, 2021, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191 (4) on page 1160, DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa075, http://zenodo.org/record/5300479
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