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Taxonomy
Pliophoca was named by Tavani (1941).
It was assigned to Monachina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocidae by Mendez et al. (2000) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010); to Monachinae by Tavani (1941), Hendey (1972), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Koretsky and Ray (2008), Berta (2009), Berta (2017), Dewaele et al. (2018) and Berta (2018); and to Monachini by Muizon (1981), Muizon (1982), Koretsky (2001), Koretsky and Barnes (2008), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Amson and Muizon (2013), Berta et al. (2015), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
It was assigned to Monachina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocidae by Mendez et al. (2000) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010); to Monachinae by Tavani (1941), Hendey (1972), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Koretsky and Ray (2008), Berta (2009), Berta (2017), Dewaele et al. (2018) and Berta (2018); and to Monachini by Muizon (1981), Muizon (1982), Koretsky (2001), Koretsky and Barnes (2008), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Amson and Muizon (2013), Berta et al. (2015), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1941 | Pliophoca Tavani p. 112 |
| 1972 | Pliophoca Hendey p. 100 |
| 1981 | Pliophoca Muizon p. 135 |
| 1982 | Pliophoca Muizon p. 205 figs. Table 1 |
| 1997 | Pliophoca McKenna and Bell p. 259 |
| 2000 | Pliophoca Mendez et al. p. 24 |
| 2001 | Pliophoca Koretsky p. 86 |
| 2002 | Pliophoca Berta p. 923 |
| 2003 | Pliophoca Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2008 | Pliophoca Koretsky and Barnes p. 549 |
| 2008 | Pliophoca Koretsky and Ray p. 103 |
| 2009 | Pliophoca Berta p. 863 |
| 2010 | Pliophoca Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2010 | Pliophoca Werdelin and Peigne p. 648 |
| 2013 | Pliophoca Amson and Muizon |
| 2015 | Pliophoca Berta et al. p. 3 |
| 2017 | Pliophoca Berta p. 157 |
| 2018 | Pliophoca Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C |
| 2018 | Pliophoca Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Pliophoca Dewaele et al. p. 14 |
| 2019 | Pliophoca Kienle and Berta |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available