Genus Arctocephalus Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1826

Museums

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• Arctocephalus Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. & Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1826. Phoques. Vol. 39 in, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Strasbourg & Paris (1816–1830). 540-590 pp. [publication date established from Scheffer, V.B. 1958. Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. A review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford : Stanford Univ. Press x 179 pp. 32 pls] [553].

  Type species:

   Phoca antarctica Thunberg, 1811 by original designation, see Allen, J.A. 1905. The Mammalia of southern Patagonia. Report of the Princeton University Expedition to Patagonia, 1896–1899 Zool. 3: 1-210 pls i-xxix (as Arctocephelus ursinus).

  Compiled from secondary source:

   Scheffer, V.B. 1958. Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. A review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford : Stanford University Press x 179 pp. 32 pls.
• Halarctus Gill, T. 1866. Prodrome of a monograph of the pinnipedes. Proceedings of the Essex Institute Salem 5: 3-13 [7].

  Type species:

   Phoca antarctica Thunberg, 1811 by original designation (as Arctocephalus delalandi Gray).

  Compiled from secondary source:

   Allen, J.A. 1905. The Mammalia of southern Patagonia. Report of the Princeton University Expedition to Patagonia, 1896–1899 Zool. 3: 1-210 pls i-xxix.
• Arctophoca Peters, W.C.H. 1866. Über die Ohrenrobben (Seelöwen und Seebaren). Otariae, insbesondere über die in den Sammlungen zu Berlin benfindlichen Arten. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1866: 261-281 4 pls [276].

  Type species:

   Otaria (Arctophoca) philippii Peters, 1866 by original designation.

  Compiled from secondary source:

   Allen, J.A. 1905. The Mammalia of southern Patagonia. Report of the Princeton University Expedition to Patagonia, 1896–1899 Zool. 3: 1-210 pls i-xxix.
• Gypsophoca Gray, J.E. 1866. Notes on the skulls of sea-bears and sea-lions (Otariadae) in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 18: 228-237 [publication date established from Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122] [236] [junior homonym of Otaria cinerea Péron, 1816].

  Type species:

   Otaria cinerea Gray, 1866 (=Otaria forsteri Lesson, 1829) by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1869. Additional notes on Sea-Bears (Otariadae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 4: 264-270 [269]

  Compiled from secondary source:

   Scheffer, V.B. 1958. Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. A review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford : Stanford University Press x 179 pp. 32 pls.
• Euotaria Gray, J.E. 1866. Notes on the skulls of sea-bears and sea-lions (Otariadae) in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 18: 228-237 [publication date established from Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122] [236] [see also Gray, J.E. 1869. Additional notes on Sea-Bears (Otariadae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 4: 264–270 (269)].

  Type species:

   Phoca falklandica Desmarest, 1817 (=Arctocephalus nigrescens (Gray, 1850)) by monotypy.

  Compiled from secondary source:

   Allen, J.A. 1905. The Mammalia of southern Patagonia. Report of the Princeton University Expedition to Patagonia, 1896–1899 Zool. 3: 1-210 pls i-xxix; Gray, J.E. 1869. Additional notes on Sea-Bears (Otariadae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 4: 264-270.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Allen, J.A. 1905. The Mammalia of southern Patagonia. Report of the Princeton University Expedition to Patagonia, 1896–1899 Zool. 3: 1-210 pls i-xxix

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumpolar.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Macquarie Island Province (24), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Antarctic Region

• Subantarctic Islands
  • Amsterdam & St. Paul Islands
  • Crozet Islands
  • Kerguélen Island
  • Marion & Prince Edward Island
  • South Georgia

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: S oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic
  • South Australia: S Gulfs coast
  • Western Australia: SW coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Distribution References