PINNIPEDIA: PHOCIDAE 787 



Phoca hispida hispida Schreber* 



1775. Phoca hispida Schreber, Die Saugthiere . . . , Theil 3, Heft 13, pi. 86. 

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



607, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1898. Phoca hispida Thomas, The Zoologist, ser. 4, vol. 2, pp. 100, 102, 



March 1898. 

 1934. Pusa hispida Boettiger, Zeitschr. Saug., Berlin, vol. 9, No. 3, p. 359, 



Dec. 30, 1934. 

 Type Locality. — Coasts of Greenland and Labrador. Range. — Mostly in Arctic 

 seas; recorded as far north as lat. 82°40' N.; in all parts of the sea in eastern 

 American Arctic from Greenland south to Labrador and Hudson Bay; probably 

 intergrading with bcaufortiana in central part of Canadian Arctic Archipelago 

 (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 79, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Phoca hispida beauf ortiana Anderson* 



1943. Phoca hispida beaujortiana Anderson, Ann. Rep. Provancher Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., Quebec, 1942 v p. 25, Sept. 7, 1943. 



Type Locality. — Cockburn Point, Dolphin and Union Strait, Mackenzie District, 

 Northwest Territories, Canada; lat. 68°55'29" N., long, about 115°10' W. 

 Range. — Arctic coast of Alaska (Bailey and Hendee, Joum. Mamm., vol. 7, No. 1, 

 p. 17, Feb. 15, 1926) and Beaufort Sea, east to Coronation Gulf (Anderson, Nat. 

 Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 79, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Phoca hispida soperi Anderson* 



1943. Phoca hispida soperi Anderson, Ann. Rep. Provancher Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 Quebec, 1942, p. 27, Sept. 7, 1943. 



Type Locality. — Near mouth of Takuirbing River, at eastern end of Nettilling 

 Lake about 85 feet above sea level, Baffin Island, District of Franklin, Northwest 

 Territories, Canada; lat. 66° 16' N., long. 74°33'36" W. Range.— Restricted to 

 Nettilling Lake in central Baffin Island and east side of Foxe Basin near mouth 

 of Koukdjuak River on west coast of Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada 

 (Anderson, Nat. Mus, Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 79, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Subgenus PAGOPHILUS " Gray (harp seals) 



1844. Pagophilus Gray, in The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and 

 Terror, . . . , vol, 1, pt. 1, p. 3. (Type, Phoca groenlandica Erxleben.) 



1904. Pagophoca Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , Suppl., fasc. 1, 

 p. 287. (Substitute for Pagophilus, assumed to be a homonym of Pagophila 

 Kaup, 1829. This is not in conformity with the provisions of the Interna- 

 tional Code, Article 36, with accompanying recommendation, and Opinion 

 25 of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, Smith- 

 sonian Inst. Spec. Publ. 1938, pp. 59-61, July 1910.) 



Phoca groenlandica Erxleben* 



1777. [Phoca] groenlandica Erxleben, Systema regni animalis . . . , vol. 1, 

 p. 588. 



11 Regarded as a genus by Boetticher, Zeitschr. Saug., Berlin, vol. 9, p. 359, Dec. 30, 1934. 

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

 Oct. 5, 1945. 



