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Odobenus rosmarus (walrus)
Taxonomy
Phoca rosmarus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type specimen is none designated.
It was recombined as Trichechus rosmarus by Linnaeus (1766), Nilsson (1847), Gray (1850), Gray (1866), Vanden Broeck (1874), Lydekker (1885), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Turner (1912); it was recombined as Rosmarus rosmarus by Gill (1866); it was recombined as Odobaenus rosmarus by Allen (1880); it was recombined as Odobenus rosmarus by Brisson (1762), Hay (1902), Thomas (1911), Hay (1930), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kardas (1965), Van Der Feen (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Fay (1985), Riedman (1990), Harington and Beard (1992), Deméré (1994), Miller (1997), Deméré et al. (2003), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta (2017), Magallanes et al. (2018), Berta (2018), Berta et al. (2018), Biewer et al. (2020) and Ponomarev et al. (2023).
It was recombined as Trichechus rosmarus by Linnaeus (1766), Nilsson (1847), Gray (1850), Gray (1866), Vanden Broeck (1874), Lydekker (1885), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Turner (1912); it was recombined as Rosmarus rosmarus by Gill (1866); it was recombined as Odobaenus rosmarus by Allen (1880); it was recombined as Odobenus rosmarus by Brisson (1762), Hay (1902), Thomas (1911), Hay (1930), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kardas (1965), Van Der Feen (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Fay (1985), Riedman (1990), Harington and Beard (1992), Deméré (1994), Miller (1997), Deméré et al. (2003), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta (2017), Magallanes et al. (2018), Berta (2018), Berta et al. (2018), Biewer et al. (2020) and Ponomarev et al. (2023).
Subspecies
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Phoca rosmarus Linnaeus p. 38 |
| 1762 | Odobenus rosmarus Brisson p. 30 |
| 1766 | Trichechus rosmarus Linnaeus |
| 1772 | Phoca rosmarus Brunnich p. 34 |
| 1842 | Odobenus virginianus De Kay |
| 1842 | Trichechus virginianus Dekay p. 56 figs. Plate 19, Figs 1 a, b |
| 1847 | Trichechus rosmarus Nilsson p. 318 |
| 1850 | Trichechus rosmarus Gray p. 32 |
| 1858 | Odobenotherium lartetianum Gratiolet p. 624 |
| 1866 | Rosmarus rosmarus Gill p. 7 |
| 1866 | Trichechus rosmarus Gray p. 36 |
| 1869 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Cope p. 191 figs. Plate XI, Fig. 6 |
| 1869 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Leidy p. 440 |
| 1874 | Trichechus rosmarus Vanden Broeck p. 198 |
| 1880 | Odobaenus rosmarus Allen p. 147 |
| 1885 | Trichechus rosmarus Lydekker p. 197 |
| 1885 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Woodward p. 424 |
| 1898 | Trichechus rosmarus Trouessart p. 375 |
| 1898 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Trouessart p. 1006 |
| 1902 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Hay p. 583 |
| 1902 | Odobenus rosmarus Hay p. 784 |
| 1902 | Odobenus virginianus Hay p. 784 |
| 1903 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Rhoads p. 246 |
| 1904 | Trichechus rosmarus Trouessart p. 281 |
| 1904 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Trouessart p. 751 |
| 1911 | Odobenus rosmarus Thomas p. 134 |
| 1912 | Trichechus rosmarus Turner p. 163 |
| 1922 | Trichechus orientalis Dybowski p. 351 |
| 1922 | Odobenotherium virginianum Kellogg p. 104 |
| 1930 | Odobenus rosmarus Hay p. 559 |
| 1930 | Odobenus virginianus Hay p. 560 |
| 1930 | Hemicaulodon effodiens Hay p. 657 |
| 1963 | Odobenus rosmarus Scheffer and Rice p. 3 |
| 1965 | Odobenus rosmarus Kardas p. 376 |
| 1968 | Odobenus rosmarus Van Der Feen p. 24 |
| 1980 | Odobenus rosmarus Kurten and Anderson p. 200 |
| 1985 | Odobenus rosmarus Fay p. 1 |
| 1990 | Odobenus rosmarus Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
| 1992 | Odobenus rosmarus Harington and Beard p. 313 |
| 1994 | Odobenus rosmarus Deméré p. 121 |
| 1997 | Odobenus rosmarus Miller p. 2 |
| 2003 | Odobenus rosmarus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2013 | Odobenus rosmarus Boessenecker and Churchill p. 10 fig. 8 |
| 2014 | Odobenus rosmarus Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2017 | Odobenus rosmarus Berta p. 156 |
| 2018 | Odobenus rosmarus Berta p. 714 figs. Fig. 3 |
| 2018 | Odobenus rosmarus Berta et al. p. 217 figs. Fig. 6 |
| 2018 | Odobenus rosmarus Magallanes et al. p. 30 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2020 | Odobenus rosmarus Biewer et al. figs. Figure 2 |
| 2023 | Odobenus rosmarus Ponomarev et al. p. 672 |
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Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 [walrus]
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Odobenus rosmarus divergens Illiger 1815
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Invalid names: Trichechus cookii Fremerij 1831 [synonym]
Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus Pallas 1811
Invalid names: Hemicaulodon effodiens Cope 1869 [synonym], Odobenus virginianus De Kay 1842 [synonym], Trichechus orientalis Dybowski 1922 [synonym], Trichechus virginianus Dekay 1842 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available