Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 1826

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

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scientific name	Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 1826
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Arctocephalus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 1826 View in CoL . In F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat., 39:553 [1826].

TYPE SPECIES: " Phoca ursina View in CoL " (= Phoca pusilla Schreber, 1777 ; not Phoca ursina Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ; Allen, 1905 discussed confusion in designation of type species).

COMMENTS: Reviewed by King (1954) and Repenning et al. (1971) who included Arctophoca Peters, 1867. Van Gelder (19776) considered Zalophus and Arctocephalus congeneric.