Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 330

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scientific name	Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 37.

TYPE LOCALITY: "ad polum Antarcticum" restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "Juan Fernandez", further restricted by Hamilton (1940) as " Isla Mas a Tierra" [ Chile] .

DISTRIBUTION: Subantarctic islands, including Macquarie, Kerguelen, S Georgia Isis.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: ansonii de Blainville, 1820; ansonina de Blainville, 1820; coxii Desmarest, 1817; crosetensis Lydekker, 1909; dubia Fischer, 1829; elephantina Gray, 1844; falclandicus Lydekker, 1909; falklandica Peters, 1875; kerguelensis Peters, 1875; macquariensis Lydekker, 1909; patagonica Gray, 1827 ; proboscidea Peron, 1816 ; resima Peron, 1816.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Ling and Bryden (1992, Mammalian Species, 391).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Phocidae
Genus	Mirounga