Phoca groenlandica Erxleben, 1777

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 331-332

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288724
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scientific name	Phoca groenlandica Erxleben, 1777
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Phoca groenlandica Erxleben, 1777 View in CoL . Syst. Regni Anim., 1:588.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Groenlandia et Newfoundland."

DISTRIBUTION: N Atlantic and Arctic oceans from E Canada to the White Sea ( Russia).

SYNONYMS: albicauda Desmarest, 1822 ; albini Alessandrini, 1851 ; dorsata Pallas, 1811; leucopla Thienemann, 1824 ; oceanica Lepechin, 1778 ; semilunaris Boddaert, 1785 .

COMMENTS: Placed in Pagophilus Gray, 1844 , followed by Scheffer (1958) and Muizon (1982a).

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Taxonomy

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

Phoca groenlandica Erxleben, 1777

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993

1993

Phoca groenlandica

Erxleben 1777: 588

1777

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