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Otaria flavescens Shaw, 1800 
AphiaID: 231425

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Pinnipedia (Infraorder) > Otariidae (Family) > Otaria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Otaria Shaw, 1800
Synonymised
taxa
  Otaria byronia (de Blainville, 1820) (synonym)
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 South American sea lion  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Falkland Islands [details]
South America [details]
Link To ITIS
Note  Distribution: widely distributed from northern Peru to southern Brazil [details]
Images 
South American Sea Lion
South American Sea Lion
added on 2006-11-24 - author: Roger Kirkwood
qualitystatus: not checked

Otaria byronia
[image from synonym]
Otaria byronia
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked

Otaria flavescens
Otaria flavescens
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
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. (2010). Otaria flavescens Shaw, 1800. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231425 on 2010-09-02
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