144 ODONTOB^NUS. PHOCA. 



Family Odontobsenidse. 

 Genus Odontobaenus (137). 



Odontobaenus divergens (Illigcr). 



Trichcclms di'ccrgcns Illig., Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1815, p. 68. 

 Trichcclms obcsus Illig., Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1815, p. 64, 

 no men nndinn; Elliot, Syn. X. Am. Fauna, F. C. M. Pub., II, 



1901, p. 358. 



Odontobcrnns obcsus Elliot, Check-List Mamm. N. Am. Cont. and 



W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., VI, 1905, p. '439. 

 Odobenu.s dticrgcns Stejn., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, 1914, 



P- 145- 

 Type locality. Western coast of Arctic Sea. 



Gcogr. Distr. Coast of northeastern Asia eastward to Alaska. 



Mr. Stcjncgcr has shown (/. c.) that Illiger's name obesus for this 

 species is a nomcn nudum, being "without any trace of diagnosis, in- 

 dication, or literary reference whatever"; but on page 68 of the same 

 paper he bestows a tenable name, divergens, upon the animal, which 

 will be the one by which it must hereafter be known. 



Family Phocidae. 

 Subfamily Phocinae. 



Genus Phoca (141). 



Phoca ochotensis macrodens Allen. 



Phoca ochotensis macrodens Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XYT, 



1902, p. 483. 



Type locality. Avatcha Bay, Kamchatka. Ranges to Point 

 Barrow, Alaska. 



Subgenus Erignathus. 



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Phoca barbata nautica Pallas. 



Phoca nautica Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., I, 1811, p. 108. 



Erignathus barbatus nauticus Osgood, N. Am. Fauna, No. 24, 1904, 

 ]>. 47. 



T\l>t- tin ulily. Okhotsk Sea. 



Geo^r. Distr. Okhotsk Sea eastward to coast of Alaska . 



This form was placed in the Check-List as a synonym of Phoca 

 barbala, but lately it has been recognized as a subspecies. Erignatlms 

 has also been employed by smiu- writers as a distinct genus. 



