Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Attributed to Slater & Helgen
Full reference: D.-M. Scheel, G. J. Slater, S.-O. Kolokotronis, C. W. Potter, D. S. Rotstein, K. Tsangaras, A. D. Greenwood and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Biogeography and taxonomy of extinct and endangered monk seals illuminated by ancient DNA and skull morphology. ZooKeys (409)1-33
Parent taxon: Monachinae according to D.-M. Scheel et al. 2014
See also Berta et al. 2018 and Kienle and Berta 2019
Sister taxa: Acrophoca, Afrophoca, Australophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mirounga, Miroungini, Monachini, Monachus, Monotherium, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Piscophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Sarcodectes
Subtaxa: Neomonachus schauinslandi Neomonachus tropicalis
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (11 collections), Belize (2), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (5), the Dominican Republic (1), Guadeloupe (1), Honduras (9), Jamaica (5), Mexico (11), the Netherlands Antilles (7), Nicaragua (2), Saint Kitts and Nevis (2), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (35: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, Virgin Islands), Venezuela (2), Virgin Islands (1)
Total: 98 collections including 99 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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