Monachus Flemming 1822 (monk seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Synonyms: Heliophoca Gray 1854, Mammonachus Herrera 1899, Pelagios Cuvier 1824, Pelagius Cuvier 1824, Pelagocyon Gloger 1842

Parent taxon: Monachinae according to A. Berta 2018

See also Adam 2004, Allen 1880, Amson and Muizon 2013, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta et al. 2018, Burns and Fay 1970, Dal Piaz 1929, Davis et al. 2004, Deméré et al. 2003, Friant 1947, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Gill 1866, Gray 1825, Gray 1850, Gray 1866, Gray 1871, Hendey 1972, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Grigorescu 2002, Koretsky and Holec 2002, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Palmer 1904, Rice 1998, Riedman 1990, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Sepkoski 2002, Sherman 1952, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912, Vidal 1991, Werdelin and Peigne 2010, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Zittel 1925

Sister taxa: Acrophoca, Afrophoca, Auroraphoca, Australophoca, Callophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mesotaria, Mirounga, Miroungini, Monachini, Monotherium wymani, Neomonachus, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Paleophoca nystii, Palmidophoca, Piscophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Pristiphoca, Pristiphoca occitana, Sarcodectes, Seronectes, Terranectes, Terranectes magnus, Terranectes parvus, Virginiaphoca

Subtaxa: Monachus (Monachus) Monachus (Monatherium) Monachus monachus

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Type: Monachus monachus

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Bulgaria (1 collection), France (1), Italy (2), Morocco (4), Portugal (2), Spain (2)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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