WoRMS name details
Monachus tropicalis (J.E. Gray, 1850)
255020 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255020)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine
(of Phoca tropicalis J.E. Gray, 1850) Gray, J. E. (1850). Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, part two [only]: Seals. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12913 [details]
WoRMS (2025). Monachus tropicalis (J.E. Gray, 1850). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255020 on 2025-03-28
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Phoca tropicalis J.E. Gray, 1850) Gray, J. E. (1850). Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, part two [only]: Seals. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12913 [details]
basis of record Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
basis of record Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
IUCN Red List Category extinct since 1952 [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | West Indian monk sealCaribbean monk seal | [details] |
