WoRMS taxon details
Phoca vitulina vitulina Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 255033
AphiaID: 255033
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Pinnipedia (Infraorder) > Phocidae (Family) > Phoca (Genus) > Phoca vitulina (Species) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Subspecies | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 19 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255033 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2013). Phoca vitulina vitulina Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255033 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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