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Pusa (Arctic seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1777Pusa Scopoli p. 490
1880Phoca (Pusa) Allen p. 464
1898Phoca (Pusa) Trouessart p. 386
1904Pusa Palmer p. 598
1904Pusa Trouessart p. 284
1947Phoca (Pusa) Friant p. 7
1960Phoca (Pusa) McLaren p. 57
1963Pusa Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1970Phoca (Pusa) Burns and Fay p. 390 figs. Fig. 3
1981Pusa Muizon p. 135
2001Pusa Koretsky p. 85
2002Pusa Berta p. 923
2003Pusa Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. FIg. 3.3
2004Pusa Davis et al. p. 365
2005Pusa Wilson and Reeder
2006Pusa Koretsky and Barnes p. 148
2010Pusa Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1
2018Pusa Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C
2018Pusa Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2
2019Pusa Kienle and Berta

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
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
familyPhocidae()
subfamilyPhocinae
genusPusaScopoli 1777

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.

G. Pusa Scopoli 1777 [Arctic seal]
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Pusa caspica Nilsson 1837
Pusa hispida Schreber 1775 [ringed seal]
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Pusa hispida saimensis Nordquist 1900
Invalid names: Phoca (Phoca) foetida Fabricius 1776 [synonym]
Pusa sibirica Gmelin 1788
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available