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1902. Phoca ochotensis macrodens J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 16, p. 483, Dec. 12, 1902. (Part.) 

 1902. Phoca richardii pribilofensis J. A. Allenf, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 16, p. 495, Dec. 12, 1902. (St. Paul Island, Pribilof islands, Alaska. 



Regarded by Schwarz, Journ. Mamm., vol. 23, No. 2, p. 222, May 14, 1942, 



as identical with the Phoca largha of Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, 



. . . , vol. 1, p. 113, 1811.) 

 1908. Phoca vitulina largha Smirnov, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersburg, 



vol. 23, No. 4, p. 63. (Part. Regards richardii, pribilofensis, geronimen- 



sis, stejnegeri, and macrodens as synonyms.) 



1941. Phoca petersi Mohr, Zool. Anzeiger, vol. 133, p. 58, Feb. 1, 1941. 

 (Part.) 



1942. Phoca vitulina richardii Doutt, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 29, p. 112, 

 May 12, 1942. 



Type Locality. — Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Range. — 

 American side of North Pacific Ocean from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, 

 south to Monterey County, California (Doutt, 1942, p. 121) ; occasionally in 

 Arctic Ocean as far north as Point Barrow, Alaska, and east to Herschel Island, 

 Yukon (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 78, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Phoca vitulina geronimensis J. A. Allenf* 



1902. Phoca richardii geronimensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 16, p. 495, Dec. 12, 1902. 

 1942. Phoca vitulina geronimensis Doutt, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 29, pp. 116, 



117, May 12, 1942. 

 Type Locality. — San Geronimo Island, Baja California, Mexico. Range. — 

 From San Geronimo and San Martin Islands off northern Baja California north 

 to Ventura County, Calif. (Lyon, Journ. Mamm., vol. 16, No. 2, p. 151, May 15, 

 1935). 



Subgenus HISTRIOPHOCA » Gill (ribbon sealg) 



1873. Histriophoca Gill, Amer. Nat., vol. 7, p. 179, March 1873. (Type, 

 Phoca fasciata Zimmermann.) 



Phoca fasciata Zimmermann* 



1783. Phoca fasciata Zimmermann, Geographische Geschichte . . . , vol. 3, 



p. 277. 

 1884. Phoca fasciata True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), p. 



607, Nov. 29, 1384. 

 Type Locality. — Kurile Islands, Japan. Range. — Bering Sea from Aleutian 

 Islands north to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Arctic Ocean. 



Subgenus PTJSA 17 Scopoli (ringed seals) 



1777. Pusa Scopoli, Introductio ad historiam naturalem . . . , p. 490. (Type, 

 Phoca foetida Fabricius = Phoca hispida Schreber.) 



10 Not mentioned by Boetticher, Zeitschr. Saug., Berlin, vol. 9, pp. 359-368, Dec. 30, 1934. 

 Included in synonymy of Phoca by Simpson, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 85, p. 122, 

 Oct. 5, 1945. 



17 Regarded as a genus by Boetticher, Zeitschr. Saug., Berlin, p. 359, Dec. 30, 1934. In- 

 cluded in synonymy of Phoca by Simpson, Bull. Amer. Mus, Nat. Hist., vol. 85, p. 122, 

 Oct. 5, 1945. 



