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1884. Zalophus calijornianus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 

 29), p. 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Rocks in vicinity of San Francisco Bay, Calif. Range. — 

 North Pacific from Tres Marias Islands, 65 miles off coast of Nayarit, Mexico 

 (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 14, p. 17, Apr. 29, 1899), the Coronados 

 Islands and Guadalupe Island off northern Baja California, north to northern 

 California (Bonnot, California Fish and Game Comm. Fish Bull. 14, p. 10, 

 January 1928) ; casually to British Columbia (Cowan, Canadian Field-Nat., 

 vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 146-147, Dec. 3, 1936) . 



Family Odobenidae (walruses) 

 Genus ODOBENUS 14 Brisson 



1762. Odobenus Brisson, Regnum animale . . . , ed. 2, p. 30. (Type, Odoben- 



us Brisson — Ph oca rosmarus Linnaeus) . 

 1772. Rosmarus Briinnich, Zoologiae fundamenta . . . , p. 38. (Type, "Zav- 



hef ten" = Phoca rosmarus Linnaeus.) 



Odobenus rosmarus divergens (Illiger) * (Pacific walrus) 



1815. ? Trichechus obesus Illiger, Abliandl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1804- 



1811, p. 64. (Nomen nudum.) 

 1815. [Trichechus] divergens Illiger, Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 



1804-1811, p. 68. 

 1884. Odobaenus obesus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol .7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 608, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1914. Odobenus divergens Stejneger, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, 



p. 145, July 10, 1914. 

 1938. Odobenus rosmarus divergens Barabash-Nikiforov, Journ. Mamm., vol. 

 19, No. 4, p. 427, Nov. 14, 1938; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, Checklist 

 of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, Publ. Brit. Mus. (Nat. 

 Hist.), p. 324, Nov. 19,1951. 

 Type Locality. — About 35 miles south of Icy Cape, Alaska. Range. — Bering 

 Sea north into Arctic Ocean, coasts of northeastern Siberia and northwestern 

 Alaska, commonly north to Point Barrow ; a few casual records on north coast of 

 Alaska; one from Herschel Island, Yukon, and one reported in Dolphin and 

 Union Strait (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 81, Jan. 24, 

 1947). 



Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus) * (Atlantic walrus) 



1758. [Phoca] rosmarus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 38. 

 1859. 0[dobacnus] rosmarus Sundevall, Of v. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockholm, 



1859, p. 446. 

 1884. Odobaenus rosmarus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 608, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1951. Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus Ellerrnan and Morrison-Scott, Checklist 



of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, Publ. Brit. Mus. (Nat. 



Hist.), p. 324, Nov. 19, 1951. 



" Brisson regarded as non-Linnaean and not consistently binominal by Hopwood, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, vol. 117, pts. 2-3, pp. 534, 535, Oct. 30, 1947. See also Hershkovitz, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 62, p. 12, Mar. 17, 1949. 



