Genus Leptonychotes Gill, 1872

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptonychotes Gill, T. 1872. Arrangement of the families of mammals with analytical tables. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 11(230): 6-98 [70] [nom. nov. for Leptonyx Gray, 1837].

  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.
• Leptonyx Gray, J.E. 1837. Description of some new or little known Mammalia, principally in the British Museum Collection. Magazine of Natural History ns 1: 577-587 [Date published Nov. 1837: publication date established from Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls [3 Nov. 1888]] [582] [junior homonym of Leptonyx Swainson, 1833].

  Type species:

   Otaria weddelli Lesson, 1826 by original designation.

  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.
• Poecilophoca Flower, W.H. & Lydekker, R. 1891. An Introduction to the Study of Mammals Living and Extinct. London : A & C Black xvi 763 pp. [605] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Leptonyx Gray, 1837].

  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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ling, J.K. 1988. Phocidae. pp. 226-229 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service 274 pp. [227]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Antarctica.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Antarctic Region

• Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast

Distribution References