Odobenidae Allen, 1880

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 325

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288605
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scientific name	Odobenidae Allen, 1880
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Family Odobenidae Allen, 1880 View in CoL . U.S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Territ, 12:ix, 5.

COMMENTS: Trichecidae Gray, 1821 and Rosmaridae Gill, 1866 are invalid ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1959). Considered as a subfamily of Otariidae by Mitchell and Tedford (1973), Tedford (1976), Hall (1981), Berta and Deméré (1986), Barnes (1989), and Wozencraft (1989a, b); however, Wyss (1987) and Berta (1991) contended that this would make the otariids paraphyletic.