Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 326-327

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288626
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scientific name	Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
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Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875) View in CoL . 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)." GoogleMaps

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).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Otariidae
Genus	Arctocephalus