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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOtariidae Gray, 1825 
AphiaID: 231386

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChordata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVertebrata (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathostomata (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTetrapoda (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMammalia (Class) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTheria (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCarnivora (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaniformia (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPinnipedia (Infraorder)
Status accepted
Rank Family
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPinnipedia
Source  basis of record Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editoreared seals  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArctocephalus (Gray, 1872)
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCallorhinus J.E. Gray, 1859
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEumetopias Gill, 1866
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeophoca Gray, 1866
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOtaria Shaw, 1800
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPhocarctos (Grey, 1844)
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorZalophus Gill, 1866
Host of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAntarctophthirus microchir (Trouessart & Neumann, 1888) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorProechinophthirus fluctus (Ferris, 1916) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231386
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2010-05-20 10:05:06Z  changed  Churchill, Morgan
2010-05-20 10:09:49Z  checked  Berta, Annalisa
  
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  Citation: Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2013). Otariidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231386 on 2014-03-07
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