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Taxonomy
Piscophoca was named by Muizon (1981). Its type is Piscophoca pacifica.
It was assigned to Lobodontina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocidae by Carroll (1988), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009) and Canto et al. (2010); to Lobodontini by Muizon (1981), Muizon (1982), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Amson and Muizon (2013) and Berta et al. (2018); and to Monachinae by Rice (1998), Koretsky (2001), Berta (2017), Berta (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
It was assigned to Lobodontina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocidae by Carroll (1988), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009) and Canto et al. (2010); to Lobodontini by Muizon (1981), Muizon (1982), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Amson and Muizon (2013) and Berta et al. (2018); and to Monachinae by Rice (1998), Koretsky (2001), Berta (2017), Berta (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Piscophoca Muizon p. 19 figs. FIg. 4, Plate 1, fig. 1-3 |
| 1982 | Piscophoca Muizon p. 205 figs. Table 1 |
| 1988 | Pisciphoca Carroll |
| 1997 | Piscophoca McKenna and Bell p. 260 |
| 1998 | Piscophoca Rice |
| 2001 | Piscophoca Koretsky p. 86 |
| 2002 | Piscophoca Berta p. 923 |
| 2003 | Piscophoca Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2009 | Piscophoca Berta p. 863 |
| 2010 | Piscophoca Canto et al. p. 22 |
| 2010 | Piscophoca Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2013 | Piscophoca Amson and Muizon |
| 2017 | Piscophoca Berta p. 157 |
| 2018 | Piscophoca Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C |
| 2018 | Piscophoca Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2019 | Piscophoca Kienle and Berta |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available