Phocarctos Peters, 1866 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866:269.

TYPE SPECIES: Otaria hookeri ( Arctocephalus Hookeri Gray, 1844).

COMMENTS: Sivertsen (1954) and Scheffer (1958) considered Phocarctos congeneric with Neophoca, however, it was retained as separate by J. E. King (1960, 1983), Rice (1977), and Barnes (1989).