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Odobenus (walrus)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1762Odobenus Brisson p. 30
1766Trichechus Linnaeus p. 49
1772Rosmarus Brunnich p. 34
1811Trichechus obesus Illiger p. 64
1811Trichechus Illiger p. 139
1821Trichechus Gray p. 310
1825Trichecus Gray p. 340
1850Trichechus Gray p. 30
1858Odobenotherium Gratiolet p. 624
1859Odontobaenus Sundev
1866Rosmarus Gill p. 7
1866Rosmarus obesus Gill p. 13
1866Trichechus obesus Gill p. 13
1866Trichechus Gray p. 35
1869Hemicaulodon Cope p. 190 figs. Plate XI, Fig. 6
1871Trichechus Gray p. 4
1872Hemicaulodon Gill p. 92
1877Rosmarus obesus Leidy p. 214
1880Odobaenus Allen p. 14
1880Odobaenus obesus Allen p. 147
1885Trichechus Lydekker p. 197
1885Hemicaulodon Woodward p. 424
1890Hemicaulodon Cope p. 699
1891Trichechus Newton p. 17
1898Trichechus Trouessart p. 375
1898Trichechus obesus Trouessart p. 376
1898Hemicaulodon Trouessart p. 1006
1902Hemicaulodon Hay p. 583
1902Odobenus Hay p. 784
1903Hemicaulodon Rhoads p. 246
1904Odobenotherium Palmer p. 469
1904Odobenus Palmer p. 470
1904Rosmarus Palmer p. 612
1904Trichechus Palmer p. 688
1904Trichechus Trouessart p. 281
1904Trichecus obesus Trouessart p. 282
1904Hemicaulodon Trouessart p. 750
1912Trichechus Turner p. 163
1922Odobenotherium Kellogg p. 104
1926Odobaenus obesus Matsumoto p. 15
1930Odobenus Hay p. 559
1930Hemicaulodon Hay p. 657
1963Odobenus Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1965Odobenus obesus Kardas p. 376
1967Odobenus Wilson p. 212
1968Odobenus Mitchell p. 1897
1977Odobenus Repenning and Tedford p. 12
1980Odobenus Kurten and Anderson p. 200
1985Odobenus Fay p. 1
1988Odobenus Carroll
1989Odobenus Barnes p. 23
1989Odobenus Tomida p. 110
1990Odobenus Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2
1992Odobenus Harington and Beard p. 313
1994Odobenus Deméré p. 121
1995Odobenus Horikawa p. 311
1997Odobenus McKenna and Bell p. 256
2002Odobenus Berta p. 923
2002Odobenus Sepkoski
2003Odobenus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2006Odobenus Kohno p. 418
2009Odobenus Berta p. 863
2013Odobenus Boessenecker and Churchill p. 10 fig. 8
2017Odobenus Berta p. 156
2018Odobenus Berta p. 714 figs. Fig. 3
2018Odobenus Berta et al. p. 217 figs. Fig. 6
2018Odobenus Magallanes et al. p. 30 figs. Fig. 14
2020Odobenus Biewer et al. figs. Figure 2
2023Odobenus Ponomarev et al. p. 672

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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()
superfamilyOtarioidea
familyOdobenidae()
subfamilyOdobeninae
tribeOdobenini
genusOdobenus

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.

G. Odobenus Brisson 1762 [walrus]
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Odobenus mandanoensis Tomida 1989
Odobenus obesus antiquus Kardas 1965
Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 [walrus]
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Invalid names: Trichechus cookii Fremerij 1831 [synonym]
Invalid names: Hemicaulodon effodiens Cope 1869 [synonym], Odobenus virginianus De Kay 1842 [synonym], Trichechus orientalis Dybowski 1922 [synonym], Trichechus virginianus Dekay 1842 [synonym]
Invalid names: Hemicaulodon Cope 1869 [synonym], Odobenotherium Gratiolet 1858 [synonym], Rosmarus Brunnich 1772 [synonym], Trichechus Linnaeus 1766 [synonym], Trichechus obesus Gill 1866 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available