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Ommatophoca rossii Gray, 1844 
AphiaID: 231412

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Pinnipedia (Infraorder) > Phocidae (Family) > Ommatophoca (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ommatophoca Gray, 1844
Sources  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]

additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Ross seal  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Antarctophthirus mawsoni Harrison, 1937 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (106 nucleotides; 65 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: circumpolar in the Antarctic [details]

Habitat: in pack ice areas [details]
Images 
Ross Seal on floe
Ross Seal on floe
added on 2006-05-17 - author: Eric Woehler
qualitystatus: not checked

Ommatophoca rossii
Ommatophoca rossii
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked

Ommatophoca rossii
Ommatophoca rossii
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked

Barrett-Hamilton (1901, pl. 1)
Barrett-Hamilton (1901, pl. 1)
added on 2009-08-10 - author: G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231412
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). Ommatophoca rossii Gray, 1844. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231412 on 2013-05-24
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