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Histriophoca fasciata (ribbon seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocadae

Taxonomy
Phoca fasciata was named by Zimmermann (1783). It is extant. It is the type species of Histriophoca.

It was recombined as Phoca (Histriophoca) fasciata by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Friant (1947); it was recombined as Histriophoca fasciata by Gill (1873), Allen (1880), Allen (1902), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Davis et al. (2004), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).

Synonyms
  • Phoca equestris was named by Pallas (1831). It is extant.

    It was recombined as Pagophilus equestris by Gray (1871); it was synonymized subjectively with Histriophoca fasciata by Allen (1880).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1783Phoca fasciata Zimmermann
1831Phoca equestris Pallas
1871Pagophilus equestris Gray p. 2
1873Histriophoca fasciata Gill
1880Histriophoca fasciata Allen p. 676
1898Phoca (Histriophoca) fasciata Trouessart p. 383
1902Histriophoca fasciata Allen p. 474
1904Phoca (Histriophoca) fasciata Trouessart p. 285
1947Phoca (Histriophoca) fasciata Friant p. 7
1963Histriophoca fasciata Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1990Phoca fasciata Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
2001Histriophoca fasciata Koretsky p. 36
2003Histriophoca fasciata Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Histriophoca fasciata Davis et al. p. 365
2005Histriophoca fasciata Wilson and Reeder
2014Histriophoca fasciata Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2018Histriophoca fasciata Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2
2019Histriophoca fasciata 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
familyPhocadae
subfamilyPhocinae
genusHistriophocaGill 1873
speciesfasciata(Zimmermann 1783)

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.

Histriophoca fasciata Zimmermann 1783 [ribbon seal]
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Invalid names: Phoca equestris Pallas 1831 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available