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Mirounga (elephant seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1824Macrorhinus Cuvier
1827Macrorhyna Gray
1827Mirounga Gray p. 179
1830Rhinophoca Wagler p. 27
1841Physorhinus Gloger p. 163
1850Morunga Gray p. 33
1866Macrorhinus Gill p. 6
1866Morunga Gray p. 39
1871Morunga Gray p. 4
1880Macrorhinus Allen p. 742
1898Macrorhinus Trouessart p. 377
1904Mirounga Palmer p. 427
1904Physorhinus Palmer p. 537
1904Macrorhinus Trouessart p. 282
1912Macrorhinus Turner p. 194
1947Macrorhinus Friant p. 5
1963Mirounga Scheffer and Rice p. 4
1970Mirounga Burns and Fay p. 380
1980Mirounga Kurten and Anderson p. 207
1981Mirounga Muizon p. 135
1982Mirounga Muizon p. 205 figs. Table 1
1990Mirounga Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
1991Mirounga Vidal p. 6
1997Mirounga McKenna and Bell p. 259
1998Mirounga Rice
2001Mirounga Koretsky p. 87
2002Mirounga Berta p. 923
2002Mirounga Koretsky and Holec p. 175
2003Mirounga Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Mirounga Davis et al. p. 365
2009Mirounga Berta p. 863
2010Mirounga Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1
2012Morunga Berta and Churchill p. 219
2013Mirounga Amson and Muizon
2013Mirounga Koretsky and Rahmat p. 330
2015Mirounga Valenzuela-Toro et al.
2018Mirounga Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C
2018Mirounga Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2
2019Mirounga 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)
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()
superfamilyPhocoideaSmirnov 1908
familyPhocidae()
subfamilyMonachinae
genusMiroungaGray 1827

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. Mirounga Gray 1827 [elephant seal]
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Mirounga angustirostris Gill 1866 [northern elephant seal]
Mirounga leonina Linnaeus 1758 [southern elephant seal]
Morunga elephantina Molina 1782
Invalid names: Macrorhinus Cuvier 1824 [synonym], Macrorhyna Gray 1827 [synonym], Physorhinus Gloger 1841 [synonym], Rhinophoca Wagler 1830 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available