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Taxon: Subfamily Otariinae Gray, 1825 (mammal)

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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Carnivora - (Family) Otariidae

Original position

Questionably Otariidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Original entries

Questionably *Arctocephalini* (Tribe) (Gray, 1837) Mitchell, 1968
Questionably *Otariini* (Tribe) (Gray, 1825) Mitchell, 1968
Questionably *Phocarctos* (Genus) Peters, 1866

Subsequent entries

*Eumetopias* (Genus) Gill, 1866
*Neophoca* (Genus) Gray, 1866
*Otaria* (Genus) Péron, 1816
*Zalophus* (Genus) Gill, 1866

Current position

Otariidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 254.

Historical positions

*Otariidae* (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 254.
*Otariidae* (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1041.
*Otariidae* (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	5g;6s; ‡1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 4 Dec 2014	[5g;6s; ‡1s]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[5g]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	5g;[5s]

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