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Phocina

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Phocina was named by Gray (1825). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subtribe Phocina by Fulton and Strobeck (2010) and Koretsky and Rahmat (2021).

It was assigned to Phocidae by Gray (1825), Bonaparte (1850), Gray (1866) and Gray (1871); and to Phocini by Fulton and Strobeck (2010) and Koretsky and Rahmat (2021).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1825Phocina Gray p. 340
1850Phocina Bonaparte p. 1
1866Phocina Gray p. 20
1871Phocina Gray p. 1
2010Phocina Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1
2021Phocina Koretsky and Rahmat p. 145

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
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)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
RankNameAuthor
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
tribePhocini
subtribePhocina()
subtribePhocina()

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.

Subtr. Phocina Gray 1825
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G. †Planopusa Koretsky and Rahmat 2021
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Planopusa semenovi Koretsky and Rahmat 2021
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available