Arctocephalus philippii Peters 1866

Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae

Alternative combinations: Arctocephalus philippi, Arctophoca philippii, Otaria (Arctophoca) philippii

Full reference: W. C. H. Peters. 1866. Uber die Ohrenrobben (Seelöwen and Seebären), Otaria, insbesondere über die in den Sammlungen zu Berlin befindlichen Arten. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1866:261-281

Belongs to Arctocephalus according to T. A. Deméré et al. 2003

See also Berta and Churchill 2012, Berta et al. 2018, Cullen et al. 2014, Gray 1871, Repenning and Tedford 1977, Rice 1998, Riedman 1990, Scheffer and Rice 1963 and Turner 1912

Sister taxa: Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus), Arctocephalus (Callotaria), Arctocephalus australis, Arctocephalus californianus, Arctocephalus doriferus, Arctocephalus elegans, Arctocephalus falklandicus, Arctocephalus fischeri, Arctocephalus forsteri, Arctocephalus forsteri, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, Arctocephalus gazella, Arctocephalus nigriscens, Arctocephalus nivosus, Arctocephalus philippi, Arctocephalus pusillus, Arctocephalus tasmanica, Arctocephalus townsendi, Arctocephalus tropicalis, Halarctus delalandii

Distribution: found only at Juan Fernandez Islands (Quaternary of Chile)

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