| Description | Neophoca is a genus of the family Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals) of order Carnivora. It is combined by some taxonomists with the genus Phocarctos, the (extant) New Zealand sea lion. Only one species survives:
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Otariidae : Neophoca |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Otariidae : Neophoca |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Common Name | Australian sea lion |
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| Scientific Name | Neophoca Gray, 1866 |
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| Name Published In | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3 vol.18 p.231 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Neophoca | genus | belongs to Zalophina | stated without evidence | Gray, 1871 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariinae | stated without evidence | Scheffer and Rice, 1963 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariini | stated without evidence | Mitchell, 1968 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariidae | stated without evidence | Repenning and Tedford, 1977 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariinae | stated without evidence | Muizon, 1978 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariinae | implied | McKenna and Bell, 1997 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Carnivora | second hand | Sepkoski, 2002 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariinae | stated without evidence | Berta, 2002 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariinae | stated with evidence | Deméré et al., 2003 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariidae | stated without evidence | Berta et al., 2006 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariidae | stated with evidence | Berta, 2009 | | Neophoca | genus | belongs to Otariidae | stated without evidence | Berta et al., 2018 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 3 (75%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 2.59 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene |
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| Environment | marine (based on Pinnipedia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | piscivore (based on Otariidae) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Pinnipedimorpha) |
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| Ontogeny | modification of parts (based on Pinnipedimorpha) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Pinnipedimorpha) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 |
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| Common Name(s) | Australian Sea Lion |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophoca |
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| Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560 |
| Scheffer V. B., Rice D. W. (1963) A list of the marine mammals of the world, United States Fish and Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 431, 1-12 |
| Mitchell E. D. (1968) The Mio-Pliocene pinniped Imagotaria, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 25 9, 1843-1900 |
| Repenning C. A., Tedford R. H. (1977) Otarioid seals of the Neogene, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 992, 1-93 |
| Muizon C. (1978) Arctocephalus (Hydrarctos) lomasiensis, subgen. nov. et nov sp., un nouvel Otariidae du Mio-Pliocene de Sacaco, Bulletin de l'Institute Francais d'Etudes Andines 7 3-4, 169-189 |
| Berta A., Deméré T. A. (1986) Callorhinus gilmorei n. sp., (Carnivora: Otariidae) from the San Diego Formation (Blancan) and its impliations for otariid phylogeny, Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 21 7, 111-126 |
| Barnes L. G. (1989) A new enaliarctine pinniped from the Astoria Formation, Oregon, and a classification of the Otariidae (Mammalia: Carnivora), Contributions in Science 403, 1-26 |
| Riedman M. (1990) The Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses, 1-439 |
| McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640 |
| Deméré T. A., Berta A., et al (2003) Pinnipedimorph evolutionary biogeography, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279, 32-76 |
| Berta A. (2009) Pinniped Evolution, Encyclopedia of Marine Mammal Evolution, 861-868 |
| Berta A. (2018) Pinniped evolution, Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 712-722 |
| Berta A., Churchill M., et al (2018) The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 46, 203-228 doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010009 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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| Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Rice, Dale W., 1998: Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4. ix + 231. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. 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. 723--743. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Neophoca
