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Taxonomy
Pagophilus was named by Gray (1844). It is extant. Its type is Pagophilus groenlandica.
It was reranked as Phoca (Pagophilus) by Trouessart (1898), Allen (1902) and Burns and Fay (1970); it was replaced with Pagophoca by Trouessart (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Phoca by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Phocina by Gray (1866) and Gray (1871); to Phoca by Trouessart (1898), Allen (1902) and Burns and Fay (1970); to Cystophorini by Muizon (1981); to Phocidae by Gray (1850), Palmer (1904) and Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Histriophocina by Koretsky (2001) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocinae by Gill (1866), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009) and Berta (2018); and to Phocini by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Davis et al. (2004), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
It was reranked as Phoca (Pagophilus) by Trouessart (1898), Allen (1902) and Burns and Fay (1970); it was replaced with Pagophoca by Trouessart (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Phoca by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Phocina by Gray (1866) and Gray (1871); to Phoca by Trouessart (1898), Allen (1902) and Burns and Fay (1970); to Cystophorini by Muizon (1981); to Phocidae by Gray (1850), Palmer (1904) and Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Histriophocina by Koretsky (2001) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocinae by Gill (1866), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009) and Berta (2018); and to Phocini by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Davis et al. (2004), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
Species
P. groenlandica (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1844 | Pagophilus Gray p. 3 |
| 1850 | Pagophilus Gray p. 25 |
| 1866 | Pagophilus Gill p. 5 |
| 1866 | Pagophilus Gray p. 23 |
| 1871 | Pagophilus Gray p. 2 |
| 1898 | Phoca (Pagophilus) Trouessart p. 387 |
| 1902 | Phoca (Pagophilus) Allen p. 475 |
| 1904 | Pagophilus Palmer p. 497 |
| 1963 | Pagophilus Scheffer and Rice p. 3 |
| 1970 | Phoca (Pagophilus) Burns and Fay p. 390 figs. Fig. 3 |
| 1981 | Pagophilus Muizon p. 135 |
| 2001 | Pagophilus Koretsky p. 86 |
| 2002 | Pagophilus Berta p. 923 |
| 2003 | Pagophilus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2004 | Pagophilus Davis et al. p. 365 |
| 2005 | Pagophilus Wilson and Reeder |
| 2009 | Pagophilus Berta p. 863 |
| 2010 | Pagophilus Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Pagophilus Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C |
| 2018 | Pagophilus Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2019 | Pagophilus Kienle and Berta |
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G. Pagophilus Gray 1844 [harp seal]
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Pagophilus groenlandica Erxleben 1777 [harp seal]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available