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Eumetopias stelleri

Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae

Taxonomy
Phoca stelleri was named by Fischer (1829). It is extant.

It was recombined as Otaria stelleri by Gray (1850) and Gray (1866); it was recombined as Eumetopias (Eumetopias) stelleri by Trouessart (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Eumetopias jubata by Allen (1902) and Kellogg (1922); it was recombined as Eumetopias stelleri by Gray (1871), Allen (1880), Hay (1902), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912) and Hay (1930).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Phoca stelleri Fischer p. 231
1850Otaria stelleri Gray p. 47
1866Otaria stelleri Gray p. 60
1871Eumetopias stelleri Gray p. 28
1880Eumetopias stelleri Allen p. 209
1898Eumetopias (Eumetopias) stelleri Trouessart p. 370
1902Eumetopias stelleri Hay p. 783
1904Eumetopias stelleri Trouessart p. 279
1912Eumetopias stelleri Turner p. 170
1930Eumetopias stelleri Hay p. 558

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
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
familyOtariidae()
genusEumetopias
speciesstelleri()

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.

Eumetopias stelleri Fischer 1829
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available