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Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 231413

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Pinnipedia (Infraorder) > Phocidae (Family) > Mirounga (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mirounga (Linnaeus, 1758)
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 southern elephant seal  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Lepidophthirus macrorhini Enderlein, 1904 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Jeotgalicoccus pinnipedialis Hoyles, Collins, Foster, Falsen & Schumann, 2004 (unknown)
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (435 nucleotides; 62 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: circumpolar distribution in southern hemisphere [details]
Images 
Elephant Seal
Elephant Seal
added on 2006-05-17 - author: Eric Woehler
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Elephant Seal on beach
Elephant Seal on beach
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Elephant Seal
Elephant Seal
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Elephant seal
Elephant seal
added on 2006-05-26 - author: Yan Ropert-Coudert ()
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Elephant seal
Elephant seal
added on 2006-06-09 - author: José Luis Orgeira ()
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Many Elephant seals
Many Elephant seals
added on 2006-06-09 - author: José Luis Orgeira ()
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Elephant seal
Elephant seal
added on 2006-10-13 - author: Yan Ropert-Coudert ()
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mirounga leonina Valdes99
mirounga leonina Valdes99
added on 2006-10-17 - author: Yan Ropert-Coudert ()
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Elephant Seal and Gentoo Penguins
Elephant Seal and Gentoo Penguins
added on 2009-02-10 - author: Maarten Raes
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added on 2009-02-11 - author: Griffiths, Huw
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Mirounga leonina
Mirounga leonina
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Mirounga leonina
Mirounga leonina
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Mirounga leonina
Mirounga leonina
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Mirounga leonina
Mirounga leonina
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Mirounga leonina
Mirounga leonina
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Mirounga leonina
Mirounga leonina
added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ
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Mirounga leonina
Mirounga leonina
added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231413
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). Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231413 on 2013-06-20
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