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Neomonachus tropicalis

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Phoca tropicalis was named by Gray (1850) [Historically extinct.]. It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Monachus tropicalis by Gray (1866), Allen (1880), Sherman (1952), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Riedman (1990), Vidal (1991), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Adam (2004), Wilson and Reeder (2005) and Cullen et al. (2014); it was recombined as Monachus (Monachus) tropicalis by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Friant (1947) and Hendey (1972); it was recombined as Neomonachus tropicalis by Scheel et al. (2014) and Berta et al. (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Cystophora antillarum Gray
1850Phoca tropicalis Gray p. 28
1850Cystophora antillarum Gray p. 38
1866Monachus tropicalis Gray p. 20
1866Cystophora antillarum Gray p. 43
1880Monachus tropicalis Allen p. 708
1898Monachus (Monachus) tropicalis Trouessart p. 379
1904Monachus (Monachus) tropicalis Trouessart p. 283
1947Monachus (Monachus) tropicalis Friant p. 6
1952Monachus tropicalis Sherman p. 90
1963Monachus tropicalis Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1972Monachus (Monachus) tropicalis Hendey p. 100
1980Monachus tropicalis Kurten and Anderson p. 207
1990Monachus tropicalis Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
1991Monachus tropicalis Vidal p. 6
2001Monachus tropicalis Koretsky p. 86
2003Monachus tropicalis Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Monachus tropicalis Adam p. 1
2005Monachus tropicalis Wilson and Reeder
2014Monachus tropicalis Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2014Neomonachus tropicalis Scheel et al.
2018Neomonachus tropicalis Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 4

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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()
subfamilyMonachinae
genusNeomonachus
speciestropicalis()

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.

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Invalid names: Cystophora antillarum Gray 1849 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available