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Zalophus japonicus
Taxonomy
Otaria japonica was named by Peters (1866). It is extant.
It was recombined as Zalophus japonicus by Iizumi et al. (2010), Berta and Churchill (2012), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Zalophus japonicus by Iizumi et al. (2010), Berta and Churchill (2012), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1866 | Otaria japonica Peters |
| 2010 | Zalophus japonicus Iizumi et al. p. 245 |
| 2012 | Zalophus japonicus Berta and Churchill p. 217 |
| 2014 | Zalophus japonicus Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Zalophus japonicus Berta et al. p. 215 figs. FIg. 5 |
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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.
Zalophus japonicus Peters 1866
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Japan (Ibaraki) | Zalophus japonicus (192279) | |
| Holocene | Japan (Hokkaido) | Zalophus japonicus (230267) |