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Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson, 1828) 
AphiaID: 231420

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Pinnipedia (Infraorder) > Otariidae (Family) > Arctocephalus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Arctocephalus australis forsteri (Lesson, 1828)
Rank Species
Parent Arctocephalus (Gray, 1872)
Sources  basis of record: Wilson D.E. & Reeder D.A.M. (1993). Mammals species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 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]

additional source: 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 Australasian fur seal  [details]
English New Zealand fur seal  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Dusky Sound [details]
Macquarie Island [details]
New Zealand [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To GenBank (141 nucleotides; 117 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Image 
New Zealand Fur seal
New Zealand Fur seal
added on 2006-11-24 - author: Roger Kirkwood
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231420
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2010-05-20 08:13:27Z  changed  Churchill, Morgan
2010-05-20 10:09:49Z  checked  Berta, Annalisa
  
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  Citation: Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2013). Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231420 on 2013-05-21
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