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Taxon: Genus Monachus Fleming, 1822 - monk seals (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name Fleming, 1822:187.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofMonachina (Subtribe) Gray, 1869 Ref: Tedford, (R.H.), 1997: 259. [new] [inferred]
Type, by original designationMonachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)

Variants

Different spellingMonachius (Genus) Zittel, 1893 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].

Synonyms

Synonymous nameHeliophoca (Genus) Gray, 1854 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous nameMammonachus (Genus) Herrera, 1899 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous namePelagios (Genus) Cuvier, 1824 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous namePelagocyon (Genus) Gloger, 1841 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

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Vernacular Names (English)

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