Otaria baronia
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Otariidae
Otaria
Otaria baronia

description: <i>Otaria baronia</i> (de Blainville, 1820). J. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. Arts Paris, 91:300. TYPE LOCALITY: "the island of Tinian...située à l'est des Philippines ou par le 15° de latitude méridionale et le 215° de long, méridionale de Greenwich." This is an error, as there are no sea lions on these islands, fixed by Scheffer (1958) as "it probably came from the Strait of Magellan or Islas Juan Fernândez" based on Allen (1905) and Hamilton (1934). DISTRIBUTION: South American coasts from Peru to Uruguay; Falkland Isl; occasionally north to coast of Brazil. SYNONYMS: <i>chilensis</i> Müller, 1841; <i>chonotica</i> Philippi, 1892; <i>flavescens</i> Shaw, 1800; <i>fluva</i> Philippi, 1892; <i>godeffroyi</i> Peters, 1866; <i>hookeri</i> Sclater, 1866; <i>leonina</i> Molina, 1782; <i>minor</i> Gray, 1874; <i>molossina</i> Lesson and Garnot, 1826; <i>pernettyi</i> Lesson, 1828; <i>pygmaea</i> Gray, 1874; <i>rufa</i> Philippi, 1892; <i>scout</i> Boddaert, 1784; <i>ulloae</i> Tschudi, 1844; <i>uraniae</i> Lesson, 1827; <i>velutina</i> Philippi, 1892. COMMENTS: <i>Phoca flavescens</i> Shaw, 1800, was described based on a juvenile specimen in the Leverian Museum from the "Magellanic Straits" [Chile]. His description, as stated, does not fit any know otariid from this region (Allen, 1880, 1905). Cabrera (1940) believed that the description was sufficient to distinguish it from <i>Arctocephalus,</i> the only other possibility; based on the molting of young pups. King (1978) who reviewed the controversy, pointed out that at molting stage, the size of the pup would exclude it from Shaw's (1800) description.
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 328, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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