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Monachus monachus (Mediterranean monk seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Phoca monachus was named by Hermann (1779). It is extant. It is the type species of Monachus.

It was recombined as Pelagocyon monachus by Gloger (1842); it was recombined as Leptonyx monachus by Giebel (1883); it was recombined as Monachus monachus by Gill (1866), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hendey (1972), Riedman (1990), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Adam (2004), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Amson and Muizon (2013), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1779Phoca monachus Hermann
1785Phoca albiventer Boddaert p. 170
1842Pelagocyon monachus Gloger
1850Monachus albiventer Gray p. 18
1866Monachus monachus Gill p. 6
1866Monachus albiventer Gray p. 19
1883Leptonyx monachus Giebel p. 510
1898Monachus (Monachus) albiventer Trouessart p. 378
1904Monachus (Monachus) albiventer Trouessart p. 283
1912Monachus albiventer Turner p. 205
1929Monachus albiventer Dal Piaz p. 71
1947Monachus (Monachus) albiventer Friant p. 6
1963Monachus monachus Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1972Monachus monachus Hendey p. 100
1990Monachus monachus Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
2001Monachus monachus Koretsky p. 86
2003Monachus monachus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Monachus monachus Adam p. 1
2010Monachus monachus Werdelin and Peigne p. 648
2013Monachus monachus Amson and Muizon
2014Monachus monachus Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2018Monachus monachus Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 4
2019Monachus monachus Kienle and Berta

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
Pinnipedimorpha
Pinnipedia()
superfamilyPhocoideaSmirnov 1908
familyPhocidae()
subfamilyMonachinae
genusMonachusFlemming 1822
speciesmonachus(Hermann 1779)

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.

Monachus monachus Hermann 1779 [Mediterranean monk seal]
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Invalid names: Monachus albiventer Boddaert 1785 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available