Taxonomy details for Leão-Marinho-da-Patagónia (Otaria byronia)

Relationship: Deviation

BioDiversity4All Mammal Diversity Database. 2019
Species Otaria byronia (ancestral: Género Otaria) One-to-one Species Otaria flavescens (ancestral: Género Otaria)

Intentional Deviation. Treated as Otaria byronia on The Society of Marine Mammology's List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies, 2021 Version. The MDD recognizes O. flavescens as the valid epithet in recognition of Lucero et al. (2019), which designates O. flavescens as the neotype. The Society of Marine Mammology acknowledges that O. flavescens continues to be used amongst many South American mammologists.

Criado por loarie no 05 de janeiro de 2019