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Genus Lobodon Gray, 1844

  • Lobodon Gray, J.E. 1844. The seals of the southern hemisphere. 1-8 pls 1-10, 14-17 in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Vol. 1 Mammalia, birds. London : E.W. Janson [2].
    Type species:
     Phoca carcinophaga Hombron & Jacquinot, 1842 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.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Antarctica, southern circumpolar and subantarctic islands.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Other Regions

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

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • New Zealand
    • South Island

Distribution References

  • Kooyman, G.L. 1981. Crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus (Hombron and Jacquinot, 1842). pp. 221-235 in Ridgway, S.H. & Harrison, R.J. (eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 2. Seals. London : Academic Press