CATALOGUE 
OF 
SEALS. 
Fam. PHOCIDZ. 
Cutting teeth §, or £, or 4, or 2, conical or truncated ; canines 
4 2 4 2 
68 op 53 
conical, sometimes elongated; grinders =q OF =, more or less 
2 
obed or plaited. Head rounded; face more or less produced ; 
ears very small, rudimentary or none, external ; eyes large, only 
slightly convex. Body elongate, hairy, attenuated behind ; teats 
2 or 4, ventral ; feet short, enveloped in the body; the fore-feet 
short; fingers five-clawed; the hind-feet directed backwards, 
and close together; toes 5-clawed; tail very short, depressed, 
sharp-edged on each side. 
Fera (partim), Linn. S. N. i. 55. 
Bruta (part.), Linn. S. N. 1. 48. 
Phoca, Linn.S. N.i.55 ; Pennant, Syn. Quad. 330; Gray, Griffith 
eA. cK. y. 175. 
Phocide et Trichechide, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. 
Phocide, Gray, Zool. Ereb..& Terror. 
Mammiféres a Nageoires, Amphibies, Desm. N. Dict. Hist. Nat. 
xxiv. 34, 1804. 
Amphibia, Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821, 302. 
Phocadze et Trichecide, Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821, 302. 
Phocacéerna, Nilsson, Veten. Akad. Handl. 1837, 235; Illust. 
Figurer. Scand. Fauna, 1840; Transl. by Dr. Peters, Wiegm. 
_ Arch. vi. 301. 
(Pinnipedia) Ruderfusser, I/liger, Prod. 138, 1811; Riippell, 
Verz. Senck. Samml. 167, 1845. 
Les Phoques et les Morses, F. Cuv. Dict. Sci. Nat. lix. 463, 
_ 465, 1829; Duvernoy, Tab. R. A. 
letrapterygia, J. Brookes, Mus. Catal. 36, 1828. 
