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Odobenus (walrus)
Taxonomy
Odobenus was named by Brisson (1762) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio R Sepkoski's reference number: 746
conserved by the ICZN in Opinion 467 (May 1957)]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Odobenina.
It was synonymized subjectively with Rosmarus by Gill (1866); it was corrected as Odobaenus by Allen (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Trichechus by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904).
It was assigned to Odobaenidae by Allen (1880) and Carroll (1988); to Odobenina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Odobeninae by Mitchell (1968), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Fay (1985), Barnes (1989), Horikawa (1995), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Kohno (2006), Berta (2009), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Berta (2017) and Berta et al. (2018); to Odobenini by Deméré (1994), Magallanes et al. (2018) and Biewer et al. (2020); and to Odobenidae by Hay (1902), Palmer (1904), Hay (1930), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Wilson (1967), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Tomida (1989), Riedman (1990), Harington and Beard (1992), Berta (2018) and Ponomarev et al. (2023).
It was synonymized subjectively with Rosmarus by Gill (1866); it was corrected as Odobaenus by Allen (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Trichechus by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904).
It was assigned to Odobaenidae by Allen (1880) and Carroll (1988); to Odobenina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Odobeninae by Mitchell (1968), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Fay (1985), Barnes (1989), Horikawa (1995), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Kohno (2006), Berta (2009), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Berta (2017) and Berta et al. (2018); to Odobenini by Deméré (1994), Magallanes et al. (2018) and Biewer et al. (2020); and to Odobenidae by Hay (1902), Palmer (1904), Hay (1930), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Wilson (1967), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Tomida (1989), Riedman (1990), Harington and Beard (1992), Berta (2018) and Ponomarev et al. (2023).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1762 | Odobenus Brisson p. 30 |
1766 | Trichechus Linnaeus p. 49 |
1772 | Rosmarus Brunnich p. 34 |
1811 | Trichechus obesus Illiger p. 64 |
1811 | Trichechus Illiger p. 139 |
1821 | Trichechus Gray p. 310 |
1825 | Trichecus Gray p. 340 |
1850 | Trichechus Gray p. 30 |
1858 | Odobenotherium Gratiolet p. 624 |
1859 | Odontobaenus Sundev |
1866 | Rosmarus Gill p. 7 |
1866 | Rosmarus obesus Gill p. 13 |
1866 | Trichechus obesus Gill p. 13 |
1866 | Trichechus Gray p. 35 |
1869 | Hemicaulodon Cope p. 190 figs. Plate XI, Fig. 6 |
1871 | Trichechus Gray p. 4 |
1872 | Hemicaulodon Gill p. 92 |
1877 | Rosmarus obesus Leidy p. 214 |
1880 | Odobaenus Allen p. 14 |
1880 | Odobaenus obesus Allen p. 147 |
1885 | Trichechus Lydekker p. 197 |
1885 | Hemicaulodon Woodward p. 424 |
1890 | Hemicaulodon Cope p. 699 |
1891 | Trichechus Newton p. 17 |
1898 | Trichechus Trouessart p. 375 |
1898 | Trichechus obesus Trouessart p. 376 |
1898 | Hemicaulodon Trouessart p. 1006 |
1902 | Hemicaulodon Hay p. 583 |
1902 | Odobenus Hay p. 784 |
1903 | Hemicaulodon Rhoads p. 246 |
1904 | Odobenotherium Palmer p. 469 |
1904 | Odobenus Palmer p. 470 |
1904 | Rosmarus Palmer p. 612 |
1904 | Trichechus Palmer p. 688 |
1904 | Trichechus Trouessart p. 281 |
1904 | Trichecus obesus Trouessart p. 282 |
1904 | Hemicaulodon Trouessart p. 750 |
1912 | Trichechus Turner p. 163 |
1922 | Odobenotherium Kellogg p. 104 |
1926 | Odobaenus obesus Matsumoto p. 15 |
1930 | Odobenus Hay p. 559 |
1930 | Hemicaulodon Hay p. 657 |
1963 | Odobenus Scheffer and Rice p. 3 |
1965 | Odobenus obesus Kardas p. 376 |
1967 | Odobenus Wilson p. 212 |
1968 | Odobenus Mitchell p. 1897 |
1977 | Odobenus Repenning and Tedford p. 12 |
1980 | Odobenus Kurten and Anderson p. 200 |
1985 | Odobenus Fay p. 1 |
1988 | Odobenus Carroll |
1989 | Odobenus Barnes p. 23 |
1989 | Odobenus Tomida p. 110 |
1990 | Odobenus Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
1992 | Odobenus Harington and Beard p. 313 |
1994 | Odobenus Deméré p. 121 |
1995 | Odobenus Horikawa p. 311 |
1997 | Odobenus McKenna and Bell p. 256 |
2002 | Odobenus Berta p. 923 |
2002 | Odobenus Sepkoski |
2003 | Odobenus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
2006 | Odobenus Kohno p. 418 |
2009 | Odobenus Berta p. 863 |
2013 | Odobenus Boessenecker and Churchill p. 10 fig. 8 |
2017 | Odobenus Berta p. 156 |
2018 | Odobenus Berta p. 714 figs. Fig. 3 |
2018 | Odobenus Berta et al. p. 217 figs. Fig. 6 |
2018 | Odobenus Magallanes et al. p. 30 figs. Fig. 14 |
2020 | Odobenus Biewer et al. figs. Figure 2 |
2023 | Odobenus Ponomarev et al. p. 672 |
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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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Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus Pallas 1811
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