Arctocephalus gazella

• Main Author: W. Christopher Wozencraft
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Carnivora; Otariidae; Arctocephalus; Arctocephalus gazella; Amsterdam Island; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288626; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/41263629C306744CFEDDF612FDFD16BF

Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875). Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875:393, 396. TYPE LOCALITY: "von Seehunden aus Kerguelenland". Restriced by Scheffer (1958) to "Anse Betsy (49°09'S, 70°11 ' E)." DISTRIBUTION: Islands south of Antarctic convergence (Kerguelen, S Sandwich, S Orkney, Heard, Bouver, S Georgia, S Shetland Isis). STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. COMMENTS: Reviewed by King (1959a, b). Peters' (1875) original description, based on two specimens, was considered by Allen (1880) as invalid (nomen nudum). A year later Peters (1876) learned the second specimen came from St. Paul or Amsterdam Island and gave it the name Otaria (Arctophoca) elegans. Allen (1892) and King (1959b) considered these as subspecific populations. Placed in Arctocephalus by Repenning et al. (1971). 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 pages 326-327, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191