Family Otariidae Gray, 1825 . Ann. Philos., n.s., 10:340.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Allen (1880), Repenning et al. (1971), Mitchell and Tedford (1973), J. E. King (1983), Berta and Deméré (1986), and Barnes (1989). Does not include Odobenus, which was included in a monotypic subfamily (Odobeninae) by Mitchell and Tedford (1973), Tedford (1976), Hall (1981), Barnes (1989), and Wozencraft (1989a, b); however, see Wyss (1987) and Berta (1991) who are followed here. Berta and Deméré (1986) separated Arctocephalus and Callorhinus into the Arctocephalinae. Repenning et al. (1971), Repenning and Tedford (1977), and others argued against the recognition of subfamilies.