Phocarctos Peters, 1866

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 328

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Phocarctos Peters, 1866 View in CoL . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866:269.

TYPE SPECIES: Otaria hookeri ( Arctocephalus Hookeri Gray, 1844 View in CoL ).

COMMENTS: Sivertsen (1954) and Scheffer (1958) considered Phocarctos congeneric with Neophoca , however, it was retained as separate by J. E. King (1960, 1983), Rice (1977), and Barnes (1989).