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Taxonomy
Phoca australis was named by Zimmerman (1783). It is extant.
It was recombined as Arctophoca australis by Berta and Churchill (2012); it was recombined as Arctocephalus australis by Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018), Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
It was recombined as Arctophoca australis by Berta and Churchill (2012); it was recombined as Arctocephalus australis by Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018), Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
Subspecies
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1783 | Phoca australis Zimmerman p. 276 |
| 1872 | Gypsophoca subtropicalus Gray |
| 1872 | Gypsophoca tropicalis Gray p. 659 |
| 1873 | Gypsophoca subtropicalus Gray |
| 1912 | Arctocephalus australis Turner p. 174 |
| 1963 | Arctocephalus australis Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1963 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1971 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Repenning et al. |
| 1977 | Arctocephalus australis Repenning and Tedford p. 13 |
| 1977 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Repenning and Tedford p. 72 |
| 1990 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
| 2003 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2012 | Arctophoca australis Berta and Churchill p. 212 |
| 2012 | Arctophoca tropicalis Berta and Churchill p. 214 |
| 2012 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Nyakatura and Bininda-Emonds |
| 2014 | Arctocephalus australis Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2014 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Arctocephalus australis Berta et al. p. 215 figs. FIg. 5 |
| 2018 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Berta et al. p. 215 figs. FIg. 5 |
| 2021 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Lopes et al. |
| 2021 | Arctocephalus australis Pereyra and Magnussen p. 2 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Arctocephalus australis Zimmerman 1783 [South American fur seal]
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Invalid names: Arctophoca tropicalis Gray 1872 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Holocene | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Arctocephalus australis (220444) |