CATALOGUE 



OF 



SEALS. 



Fam. PHOCDXffl. 



Cutting teeth f , or f , or f , or f , conical or truncated ; canines 

 conical, sometimes elongated; grinders || or g|, more or less 

 lobed 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. i. 48. 



PhocsL,Linn.S. JV.i.55 ; Pennant, Syn. Quad. 330; Gray .Griffith 



A. K. v. 175. 



Phocidse et Trichechidse, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. 

 Phocidae, Gray, Zool. Ereb. fy Terror. 

 Mammiferes a Nageoires, Amphibies, Desm. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. 



xxiv. 34, 1804. 



Amphibia, Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821, 302. 

 Phocadse et Trichecidaj, Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821, 302. 

 Phocaceerna, Nilsson, Veten. Akad. Handl. 1837, 235; Illust. 



Figurer. Scand. Fauna, 1840 ; Transl. by Dr. Peters, Wiegm. 



Arch. vii. 301. 

 (Pinnipedia) Ruderfusser, Illiger, Prod. 138, 1811; Ruppell, 



Verz. Senck. Samml 167, 1845. 

 Les Phoques et les Morses, F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 463, 



465, 1829; Duvernoy, Tab. R.A. 

 Tetrapterygia, /. Brookes, Mus. Catal. 36, 1828. 



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