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Mirounga leonina (southern elephant seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Phoca leonina was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type specimen is 1.

It was recombined as Otaria leonina by Gray (1850) and Gray (1866); it was recombined as Macrorhinus leonina by Gill (1866); it was recombined as Macrorhinus leoninus by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912) and Friant (1947); it was synonymized subjectively with Otaria byronia by Allen (1902); it was recombined as Mirounga leonina by Thomas (1911), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Riedman (1990), Ling and Bryden (1992), Rice (1998), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Phoca leonina Linnaeus p. 37
1850Otaria leonina Gray p. 47
1866Macrorhinus leonina Gill p. 6
1866Otaria leonina Gray p. 59
1898Macrorhinus leoninus Trouessart p. 377
1904Macrorhinus leoninus Trouessart p. 282
1911Mirounga leonina Thomas p. 133
1912Macrorhinus leoninus Turner p. 195
1947Macrorhinus leoninus Friant p. 5
1963Mirounga leonina Scheffer and Rice p. 4
1990Mirounga leonina Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
1992Mirounga leonina Ling and Bryden p. 1
1998Mirounga leonina Rice p. 47
2001Mirounga leonina Koretsky p. 87
2003Mirounga leonina Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2010Mirounga leonina Werdelin and Peigne p. 648
2014Mirounga leonina Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2018Mirounga leonina Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 4
2019Mirounga leonina Kienle and Berta

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
Pinnipedimorpha
Pinnipedia()
superfamilyPhocoideaSmirnov 1908
familyPhocidae()
subfamilyMonachinae
genusMiroungaGray 1827
speciesleonina()

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.

Mirounga leonina Linnaeus 1758 [southern elephant seal]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available