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Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber, 1775) 
AphiaID: 231410

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Pinnipedia (Infraorder) > Otariidae (Family) > Arctocephalus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Arctocephalus (Gray, 1872)
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 Australian fur seal  [details]
English brown fur seal  [details]
English Cape fur seal  [details]
English South African fur seal  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus Wood Jones, 1925
Subspecies Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus (Schreber, 1776)
Environment marine
Distribution Australia [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa [details]
Host of  Proechinophthirus zumpti Werneck, 1955 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Note  Taxonomic status: placement in this genus is uncertain [details]
Image 
arctocephalus pusillus LambertsBay02
arctocephalus pusillus LambertsBay02
added on 2006-10-17 - author: Yan Ropert-Coudert ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231410
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2010-05-20 08:13:27Z  changed  Churchill, Morgan
2010-05-20 10:09:49Z  checked  Berta, Annalisa
  
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  Citation: Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2013). Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231410 on 2013-05-19
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