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Phoca hispida (ringed seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Phoca hispida was named by Schreber (1775). It is extant.

It was recombined as Callocephalus hispidus by Gray (1850); it was recombined as Phoca (Pusa) hispida by Allen (1902) and Friant (1947); it was recombined as Pusa hispida by Trouessart (1904), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Davis et al. (2004), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Nyakatura and Bininda-Emonds (2012), Berta and Churchill (2012), Cullen et al. (2014) and Berta et al. (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1775Phoca hispida Schreber
1776Phoca foetida Fabricius
1800Phoca dimidiata Schlegel
1820Phoca annellata Nillson p. 365
1850Callocephalus foetidus Gray p. 23
1850Callocephalus hispidus Gray p. 23
1850Callocephalus dimidiatus Gray p. 24
1866Pagomys foetida Gill p. 5
1866Callocephalus dimidiatus Gray p. 22
1866Pagomys foetidus Gray p. 23
1880Phoca (Pusa) foetida Allen p. 597
1898Phoca (Phoca) foetida Trouessart p. 385
1902Phoca (Pusa) hispida Allen p. 477
1904Pusa hispida Trouessart p. 287
1912Phoca hispida Turner p. 184
1930Phoca hispida Hay p. 562
1947Phoca (Pusa) hispida Friant p. 7
1963Pusa hispida Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1980Phoca hispida Kurten and Anderson p. 205
1990Phoca hispida Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
2001Pusa hispida Koretsky p. 85
2003Pusa hispida Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Pusa hispida Davis et al. p. 365
2005Pusa hispida Wilson and Reeder
2006Pusa hispida Koretsky and Barnes p. 148
2012Pusa hispida Berta and Churchill p. 225
2012Pusa hispida Nyakatura and Bininda-Emonds
2014Pusa hispida Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2018Pusa hispida Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2

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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()
RankNameAuthor
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
genusPhoca
specieshispidaSchreber 1775

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.

Phoca hispida Schreber 1775 [ringed seal]
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Invalid names: Phoca annellata Nillson 1820 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available