Phocarctos Peters 1866

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

Type Species: Otaria hookeri Gray 1844

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Phocarctos hookeri (Gray 1844)

Discussion: Sivertsen (1954) and Scheffer (1958) considered Phocarctos congeneric with Neophoca, however, it was retained as separate by Clark (1873 a), King (1960, 1983), Rice (1977), Barnes (1989), and Wynen et al. (2001).