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Halichoerus grypus (grey seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Phoca grypus was named by Fabricius (1791). It is extant. It is the type species of Halichoerus.

It was recombined as Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Friant (1947); it was recombined as Halichoerus grypus by Nilsson (1847), Gray (1850), Gill (1866), Gray (1866), Allen (1880), Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Riedman (1990), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Davis et al. (2004), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1791Phoca grypus Fabricius
1791Phoca grypus Fabricus
1847Halichoerus grypus Nilsson p. 299
1850Halichoerus grypus Gray p. 30
1866Halichoerus grypus Gill p. 5
1866Halichoerus grypus Gray p. 34
1880Halichoerus grypus Allen p. 689
1898Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus Trouessart p. 381
1904Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus Trouessart p. 284
1912Halichoerus grypus Turner p. 189
1947Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus Friant p. 6
1963Halichoerus grypus Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1980Halichoerus grypus Kurten and Anderson p. 206
1990Halichoerus grypus Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
2001Halichoerus grypus Koretsky p. 85
2003Halichoerus grypus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Halichoerus grypus Davis et al. p. 365
2014Halichoerus grypus Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2018Halichoerus grypus Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2
2019Halichoerus grypus Kienle and Berta

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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)
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()
subfamilyPhocinae
genusHalichoerusNilsson 1820
speciesgrypus(Fabricius 1791)

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.

Halichoerus grypus Fabricius 1791 [grey seal]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available