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Arctocephalus philippii

Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae

Taxonomy
Otaria (Arctophoca) philippii was named by Peters (1866). It is extant.

It was recombined as Arctophoca philippii by Gray (1871); it was misspelled as Arctocephalus philippi by Turner (1912); it was recombined as Arctocephalus philippii by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Riedman (1990), Rice (1998), Deméré et al. (2003), Cullen et al. (2014) and Berta et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Otaria (Arctophoca) philippii Peters
1871Arctophoca philippii Gray p. 32
1912Arctocephalus philippi Turner p. 178
1963Arctocephalus philippii Scheffer and Rice p. 2
1977Arctocephalus philippii Repenning and Tedford p. 73
1990Arctocephalus philippii Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2
1998Arctocephalus philippii Rice p. 26
2003Arctocephalus philippii Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2014Arctocephalus philippii Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2018Arctocephalus philippii Berta et al. p. 215 figs. FIg. 5

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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()
superfamilyOtarioidea
familyOtariidae()
genusArctocephalus
speciesphilippii()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available