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Monachus monachus (Mediterranean monk seal)
Taxonomy
Phoca monachus was named by Hermann (1779). It is extant. It is the type species of Monachus.
It was recombined as Pelagocyon monachus by Gloger (1842); it was recombined as Leptonyx monachus by Giebel (1883); it was recombined as Monachus monachus by Gill (1866), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hendey (1972), Riedman (1990), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Adam (2004), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Amson and Muizon (2013), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018), Kienle and Berta (2019).
It was recombined as Pelagocyon monachus by Gloger (1842); it was recombined as Leptonyx monachus by Giebel (1883); it was recombined as Monachus monachus by Gill (1866), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hendey (1972), Riedman (1990), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Adam (2004), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Amson and Muizon (2013), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018), Kienle and Berta (2019).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1779 | Phoca monachus Hermann |
| 1785 | Phoca albiventer Boddaert p. 170 |
| 1842 | Pelagocyon monachus Gloger |
| 1850 | Monachus albiventer Gray p. 18 |
| 1866 | Monachus monachus Gill p. 6 |
| 1866 | Monachus albiventer Gray p. 19 |
| 1873 | Monachus albiventer Scott p. 33 |
| 1883 | Leptonyx monachus Giebel p. 510 |
| 1898 | Monachus (Monachus) albiventer Trouessart p. 378 |
| 1904 | Monachus (Monachus) albiventer Trouessart p. 283 |
| 1912 | Monachus albiventer Turner p. 205 |
| 1929 | Monachus albiventer Dal Piaz p. 71 |
| 1947 | Monachus (Monachus) albiventer Friant p. 6 |
| 1963 | Monachus monachus Scheffer and Rice p. 3 |
| 1972 | Monachus monachus Hendey p. 100 |
| 1990 | Monachus monachus Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2 |
| 2001 | Monachus monachus Koretsky p. 86 |
| 2003 | Monachus monachus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2004 | Monachus monachus Adam p. 1 |
| 2010 | Monachus monachus Werdelin and Peigne p. 648 |
| 2013 | Monachus monachus Amson and Muizon |
| 2014 | Monachus monachus Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Monachus monachus Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 4 |
| 2019 | Monachus monachus Kienle and Berta |
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Monachus monachus Hermann 1779 [Mediterranean monk seal]
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Invalid names: Monachus albiventer Boddaert 1785 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Hendy et al. 2009, Gingerich 2003 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | France (Alpes Maritimes) | Monachus albiventer (50342) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Morocco | Monachus albiventer (21856 21857 21859) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Morocco | Monachus monachus (34287) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Monachus monachus (90036) | |
| Holocene | Spain (Cantabria) | Monachus monachus (101904) | |
| Holocene | Italy (Sardinia) | Monachus monachus (183397) | |
| Holocene | Italy | Monachus monachus (168609) | |
| Holocene | Bulgaria | Monachus monachus (232847) | |
| Holocene | Portugal | Monachus monachus (90112 90113) |