Phoca Linnaeus 1758

Phoca Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:37. TYPE SPECIES: Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758, by tautonomy. COMMENTS: Burns and Fay (1970), Rice (1977), McDermid and Bonner (1975), Gromov and Baranova (1981), J. E. King (1983), and Wyss (1988) considered Phoca, Pusa, Histriophoca, and Pagophilus a...

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Main Author: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Phocidae
Phoca
Wyss
Phoca vitulina
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7288717
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288717
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Summary:Phoca Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:37. TYPE SPECIES: Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758, by tautonomy. COMMENTS: Burns and Fay (1970), Rice (1977), McDermid and Bonner (1975), Gromov and Baranova (1981), J. E. King (1983), and Wyss (1988) considered Phoca, Pusa, Histriophoca, and Pagophilus a monophyletic group. However, Muizon (1982a) suggested that Histricophoca and Pagophilus may be more closely related to Cystophora than to Phoca (sensu stricto). Burns and Fay (1970) and McDermid and Bonner (1975) argued that these differences should be recognized only at the subgeneric level which is followed here. 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 331, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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