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Cystophora (hooded seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Cystophora Nilsson p. 382
1824Stemmatopus Cuvier
1841Stemmatopis Gloger p. 163
1850Cystophora Gray p. 36
1855Stemmatops Van der Hoeven p. 992
1866Cystophora Gill p. 6
1871Cystophora Gray p. 4
1880Cystophora Allen p. 723
1890Cystophoca Schufeldt p. 222
1898Cystophora Trouessart p. 378
1902Cystophora Hay p. 785
1904Cystophora Palmer p. 213
1904Cystophora Trouessart p. 282
1912Cystophora Turner p. 192
1930Cystophora Hay p. 561
1947Cystophora Friant p. 5
1952Cystophora Sherman p. 90
1963Cystophora Scheffer and Rice p. 4
1970Cystophora Burns and Fay p. 390 figs. Fig. 3
1980Cystophora Kurten and Anderson p. 207
1986Cystophora Kovacs and Lavigne p. 1
1990Cystophora Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
1997Cystophora McKenna and Bell p. 258
1998Cystophora Rice
2001Cystophora Koretsky p. 87
2002Cystophora Berta p. 923
2002Cystophora Koretsky and Holec p. 175
2002Cystophora Sepkoski
2003Cystophora Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Cystophora Davis et al. p. 365
2009Cystophora Berta p. 863
2010Cystophora Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figue 1
2013Cystophora Koretsky and Rahmat p. 330
2018Cystophora Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C
2018Cystophora Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2
2019Cystophora Kienle and Berta

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
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
genusCystophoraNilsson 1820

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. Cystophora Nilsson 1820 [hooded seal]
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Cystophora cristata Erxleben 1779 [hooded seal]
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Invalid names: Cystophora borealis Nilsson 1820 [synonym]
Invalid names: Cystophoca Schufeldt 1890 [synonym], Stemmatopis Gloger 1841 [synonym], Stemmatops Van der Hoeven 1855 [synonym], Stemmatopus Cuvier 1824 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available