PINNIPEDIA: PHOCIDAE 789 



Type Locality. — Greenland. Range. — North Atlantic, more common off 

 islands of northeastern Europe; found rarely and locally on Atlantic coast from 

 Greenland to Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 where it is most common off Anticosti and Mingan Islands on North Shore; 

 reaches southern limit on small islands near Rimouski, Riviere-du-Loup county, 

 on south side of estuary of St. Lawrence River (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada 

 Bull. 102 (1946), p. 80, Jan. 24, 1947). Accidental off New Jersey (Goodwin, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 14, No. 1, p. 74, Feb. 14, 1933) . 



Subfamily monachinae 



Genus MONACHUS Fleming 

 1822. Monachus Fleming, The philosophy of zoology; . . . , vol. 2, p. 187. 

 (Type, Phoca monachus Hermann.) 



Monachus tropicalis (Gray) * (West Indian seal) 



1850. Phoca tropicalis Gray, Catalogue of the . . . Mammalia in the . . . 

 British Museum, pt. 2, p. 28. 



1851. [ — ] ivilkianus Gosse, A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica, p. 308. 

 (Not binomial.) 



1866. Monachus tropicalis Gray, Catalogue of the seals and whales in the 



British Museum, p. 20. 

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



p. 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 Type Locality. — Jamaica. Range.— Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea as far 

 south as coast of Honduras, north to coast of Texas (Gunter, Journ. Mamm., vol. 

 28, No. 3, p. 289, Sept. 3, 1947) and Key West, Fla. (Townsend, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 4, No. 1, p. 55, Feb. 9, 1923), east to Jamaica, Cuba, and Hispaniola, 

 and northward through the Bahamas. 



Subfamily cystophorinae 

 Genus CYSTOPHORA Nilsson (hooded seals) 

 1820. Cystophora Nilsson, Skandinavisk Fauna . . . , vol. 1, p. 382. (Type, 



Cystophora borealis Nilsson = Phoca cristata Erxleben.) 

 1911. Cystophoca Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, p. 668, April 1911. (Re- 

 naming, perhaps accidental, of Cystophora.) 



Cystophora cristata (Erxleben) * 



1777. [Phoca] cristata Erxleben, Systema regni animalis . . . , vol. 1, p. 590. 



1841. Cystophora cristata Nilsson, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 7, vol. 1, p. 326. 



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

 p. 608, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Southern Greenland and Newfoundland. Range. — North At- 

 lantic coast from Greenland to Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence; the most northerly record Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Island; 



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