Phoca largha Pallas 1811

Phoca largha Pallas, 1811. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:113. TYPE LOCALITY: "quam quod observetur tantum ad orientale littus Camtschatcae", Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) listed as "Eastern coast of Kamchatka " [Russia]. DISTRIBUTION: Associated with pack ice in coastal N Pacific, Bering a...

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Bibliographic Details
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
Phoca largha
Kamchatka
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288728
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Summary:Phoca largha Pallas, 1811. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:113. TYPE LOCALITY: "quam quod observetur tantum ad orientale littus Camtschatcae", Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) listed as "Eastern coast of Kamchatka " [Russia]. DISTRIBUTION: Associated with pack ice in coastal N Pacific, Bering and Okhotsk Seas, Aleutian Isis; south to Kiangsu (China) and Japan. SYNONYMS: chorisi Lesson, 1828; macrodens Allen, 1902; nummularis Temminck, 1847; ochotensis Allen, 1902; petersi Mohr, 1941; pribilofensis Allen, 1902; tigrina Lesson, 1827. COMMENTS: Scheffer (1958) considered largha as conspecific with vitulina; however, Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) and J. E. King (1983) separated the two. 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 332, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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