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Cystophorinae (disused)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy

Cystophorina was named by Gray (1866). It is extant.

It was corrected as Cystophorinae by Gill (1866), Allen (1880), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Kellogg (1922), Weber (1928), Hay (1930), Friant (1947), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Burns and Fay (1970), Koretsky (2001), Koretsky and Holec (2002), Koretsky and Rahmat (2013) and Hafed et al. (2021).

It was assigned to Phocidae by Gill (1866), Gray (1871), Allen (1880), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Kellogg (1922), Weber (1928), Hay (1930), Friant (1947), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Burns and Fay (1970), Koretsky (2001), Koretsky and Holec (2002), Koretsky and Rahmat (2013) and Hafed et al. (2021).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1866	Cystophorinae Gill p. 6
1866	Cystophorina Gray
1871	Cystophorina Gray p. 4
1880	Cystophorinae Allen p. 723
1898	Cystophorinae Trouessart p. 377
1904	Cystophorinae Trouessart p. 282
1912	Cystophorinae Turner p. 192
1922	Cystophorinae Kellogg p. 90
1928	Cystophorinae Weber p. 352
1930	Cystophorinae Hay p. 561
1947	Cystophorinae Friant p. 5
1963	Cystophorinae Scheffer and Rice p. 4
1970	Cystophorinae Burns and Fay p. 380
2001	Cystophorinae Koretsky p. 87
2002	Cystophorinae Koretsky and Holec p. 175 figs. Fig. 9
2013	Cystophorinae Koretsky and Rahmat p. 330
2021	Cystophorinae Hafed et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Ferae	()
—	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
—	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia	Kretzoi 1943
infraorder	Canoidea	(Simpson 1931)
superfamily	Arctoidea	Flower 1869
—	Panpinnipedia	Wolsan et al. 2020
—	Pinnipedimorpha
—	Pinnipedia	()
superfamily	Phocoidea	Smirnov 1908
family	Phocidae	()
subfamily	Cystophorinae	()
subfamily	Cystophorinae	()

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.

Subfm. Cystophorinae Gray 1866

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available