208 FAMILY OTARIID^E. 



Synopsis of the Genera and Species. 

 A. Pelaee harsh, without Tinder-fur. Ears short. Molars- ' = -)S or '^- - : 



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. Species generally of large size. Color yellowish-brown ; red- 



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 To 

 dish-brown when young TRICHOPHOCAC.E 



I. Genus OTARIA, Gill ex Pcron. 



Otaria, PERON, Voy. aux Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 37, footnote (in part). 

 [Platyrlrinclius] Platyrhinque, F. CUVIER, Me~m. du Mus., xi, 1824, 208, pi. iv, 



fig. 2. 

 Platyrhincus, F. CUVIER, Diet, des Sc. Nat,, xxxix, 1827, 555. LESSON, 



Man. de Mam., 1827, 203 (in part). 

 Otaria, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7. 

 CHAR. GEN. Palatine bones extending nearly to the pterygoid processes, 



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deeply concave, truncate behind. Molars r^i == Tn- 



1. Otaria jubata ("Forster") Blainville. 



Phoca jiibota, " FORSTER, 1775"; SCHREBER, ERXLEBEN, GMELIN, and other 



early writers. 

 Phoca jubata, FORSTER, Descrip. Auim. ad Licht., 1844, 317 ("Terra Statuum; 



Insula Novi-anni"). 

 Otaria julata, DESMAREST, Mam., 1820, 248 (in part), and of most recent 



writers. 



f Phoca flavcscens, SHAW, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 260 (young). 

 Otaria leonina, PERON, Voy. auxTerr. Austr v ii, 1816, 40. Also of DESMAREST, 



GRAY, PETERS, and some others. 

 Platyrhincus Iconinus, F. CUVIER, LESSON. 

 Phoca Ityroni, BLAINVILLE, Journ. de Phys., xci, 1820, 287. DESMAREST, 



Mam., 1820, 240 (fide Gray, Suppl. Cat, Seals and Whales, 1871, 13). 

 Otaria moUomna, LESSON et GARNOT, Voy. Coq., Zool., i, 1826, 140, pi. iii 



("lies Malonines"). 



Plalyrhynvus moUossinus cturania', LESSON, Man. de Mam., 1827, 204. 

 Otaria per netty i , LESSON, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828, 420. 

 Otaria platyrhhichus et chilensis, MuLLER,Wiegmann'sArchiv fiirNaturgesch., 



1841, 333. 

 Otaria leonina, godcffroyi, Injronia. et M//O>, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 



1866, 264, 266, 269, 270, 670, 671. 



Otaria //o j , VON TSCHUDI, Fauna Peruana, 1842-44, 135, 136, pi. vi. 

 Arctocephalus falklandiats, BURMEISTER, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser. r 



xviii, 1866, pi. ix, figs. 1-4 (at least in part). 

 Otaria minor, et p>/<jni'a, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., viii, 



326. . 

 Otaria hoolccri. SCLATER, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 80. 



HABITAT. Galapagos Islands (Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool., from Hassler 

 Expedition), and coasts of South America from Peru and Chili on the Pacific 

 side, and Rio de la Plata on the Atlantic side southward. 



