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Taxonomy
Phoca australis was named by Zimmerman (1783). It is extant.
It was recombined as Arctophoca australis by Berta and Churchill (2012); it was recombined as Arctocephalus australis by Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
It was recombined as Arctophoca australis by Berta and Churchill (2012); it was recombined as Arctocephalus australis by Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Pereyra and Magnussen (2021).
Subspecies
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1783 | Phoca australis Zimmerman p. 276 |
| 1872 | Gypsophoca subtropicalus Gray |
| 1872 | Gypsophoca tropicalis Gray p. 659 |
| 1873 | Gypsophoca subtropicalus Gray |
| 1912 | Arctocephalus australis Turner p. 174 |
| 1963 | Arctocephalus australis Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1963 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1971 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Repenning et al. |
| 1977 | Arctocephalus australis Repenning and Tedford p. 13 |
| 1977 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Repenning and Tedford p. 72 |
| 1990 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
| 2003 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2012 | Arctophoca australis Berta and Churchill p. 212 |
| 2012 | Arctophoca tropicalis Berta and Churchill p. 214 |
| 2012 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Nyakatura and Bininda-Emonds |
| 2014 | Arctocephalus australis Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2014 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Arctocephalus australis Berta et al. p. 215 figs. FIg. 5 |
| 2018 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Berta et al. p. 215 figs. FIg. 5 |
| 2021 | Arctocephalus tropicalis Lopes et al. |
| 2021 | Arctocephalus australis Pereyra and Magnussen p. 2 |
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Arctocephalus australis Zimmerman 1783 [South American fur seal]
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Invalid names: Arctophoca tropicalis Gray 1872 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available