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, Scott 1873 and Turner 1912
Sister taxa: Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus), Arctocephalus (Callotaria), Arctocephalus australis, Arctocephalus doriferus, Arctocephalus elegans, Arctocephalus eulophus, Arctocephalus falklandicus, Arctocephalus fischeri, Arctocephalus forsteri, Arctocephalus forsteri, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, Arctocephalus gazella, Arctocephalus grayii, Arctocephalus nivosus, Arctocephalus philippi, Arctocephalus pusillus, Arctocephalus tasmanica, Arctocephalus townsendi, Arctocephalus tropicalis, Halarctus delalandii
Ecology: amphibious piscivore
Distribution: found only at Juan Fernandez Islands (Quaternary of Chile)
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