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Taxonomy
Otaria was named by Peron (1816) [Sepkoski's age data: Q Plei R]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Otariini.
It was assigned to Arctocephalina by Gray (1866); to Otariina by Gray (1825) and Gray (1871); to Phocidae by Gray (1850) and Ameghino (1889); to Otariini by Mitchell (1968); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Otariinae by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Barnes (1989), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Deméré et al. (2003); to Otariidae by Gill (1866), Lydekker (1885), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Oliver Schneider (1926), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Berta et al. (2006), Berta (2009), Boessenecker and Churchill (2015) and Berta (2018); and to Otariidae by Wilson and Reeder (2005), Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2013), Berta et al. (2018) and Tsuzuku and Kohno (2020).
It was assigned to Arctocephalina by Gray (1866); to Otariina by Gray (1825) and Gray (1871); to Phocidae by Gray (1850) and Ameghino (1889); to Otariini by Mitchell (1968); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Otariinae by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Barnes (1989), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Deméré et al. (2003); to Otariidae by Gill (1866), Lydekker (1885), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Oliver Schneider (1926), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Berta et al. (2006), Berta (2009), Boessenecker and Churchill (2015) and Berta (2018); and to Otariidae by Wilson and Reeder (2005), Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2013), Berta et al. (2018) and Tsuzuku and Kohno (2020).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1800 | Phoca flavescens Shaw |
1816 | Otaria Peron p. 37 |
1817 | Otoes Fischer |
1825 | Otaria Gray p. 340 |
1827 | Platyrhynchus Cuvier |
1841 | Pontoleo Gloger p. 164 |
1850 | Otaria Gray p. 46 |
1866 | Otaria Gill p. 7 |
1866 | Otaria Gray p. 57 |
1871 | Otaria Gray p. 4 |
1885 | Otaria Lydekker p. 196 |
1889 | Otaria Ameghino p. 343 |
1898 | Otaria Trouessart p. 369 |
1904 | Otaria Palmer p. 486 |
1904 | Platyrhynchus Palmer p. 545 |
1904 | Pontoleo Palmer p. 557 |
1904 | Otaria Trouessart p. 279 |
1912 | Otaria Turner p. 168 |
1925 | Otaria Zittel p. 78 |
1926 | Otaria Oliver Schneider p. 145 |
1963 | Otaria Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
1968 | Otaria Mitchell p. 1897 |
1977 | Otaria Repenning and Tedford p. 73 |
1978 | Otaria Muizon p. 184 |
1986 | Otaria Berta and Deméré p. 122 |
1989 | Otaria Barnes p. 23 |
1990 | Otaria Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
1997 | Otaria McKenna and Bell p. 254 |
1999 | Otaria Bergqvist et al. p. 31 |
2002 | Otaria Sepkoski |
2003 | Otaria Deméré et al. p. 49 fig. 3.3 |
2005 | Otaria Wilson and Reeder |
2006 | Otaria Berta et al. p. 496 |
2009 | Otaria Berta p. 863 |
2013 | Otaria Valenzuela-Toro et al. p. 219 |
2015 | Otaria Boessenecker and Churchill figs. Fig. 2 |
2018 | Otaria Berta p. 713 figs. Fig. 2 |
2018 | Otaria Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 5 |
2020 | Otaria Tsuzuku and Kohno p. 6 |
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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. Otaria Peron 1816 [sea lion]
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†Otaria fischeri Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Invalid names: Otoes Fischer 1817 [synonym], Phoca flavescens Shaw 1800 [nomen nudum], Platyrhynchus Cuvier 1827 [synonym], Pontoleo Gloger 1841 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available