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Taxonomy
Arctocephalina was named by Scheffer and Rice (1963). It is extant. Its type is Arctocephalus.
It was corrected as Arctocephalini by Mitchell (1968); it was reranked as the subfamily Arctocephalinae by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997), Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
It was assigned to Otariinae by Mitchell (1968); to Otariidae by Gray (1871), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Otariidae by Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
It was corrected as Arctocephalini by Mitchell (1968); it was reranked as the subfamily Arctocephalinae by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997), Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
It was assigned to Otariinae by Mitchell (1968); to Otariidae by Gray (1871), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Otariidae by Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1871 | Arctocephalina Gray p. 4 |
| 1963 | Arctocephalina Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1963 | Arctocephalinae Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1968 | Arctocephalini Mitchell p. 1897 |
| 1977 | Arctocephalinae Repenning and Tedford p. 10 |
| 1978 | Arctocephalinae Muizon p. 184 |
| 1986 | Arctocephalinae Berta and Deméré p. 112 |
| 1990 | Arctocephalinae Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
| 1997 | Arctocephalinae McKenna and Bell p. 253 |
| 2021 | Arctocephalinae Pereyra and Magnussen p. 2 |
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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.
Subfm. Arctocephalinae Scheffer and Rice 1963
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available