208 FAMILY OTARIID^. 



Synopsis of fhc Genera and Species. 



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A. Pelage harsh, withoutimder-fur. Ears short. Molars^ ? = :r;i'Or'^ - = 

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i^. Species generally of large size. Color yellowish-brown ; red- 



dish-Lro-wn when young Trichophocac^. 



I. Genus Otaria, GiJl ex Per on. 



Otaria, Perox, Voy. aux Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 37, footnote (in part). 

 [Plaiyrhinchtts'i Flatyrhinque, F. Cuvier, M^m. du Mns., xi, 1824, 208, pi. iv, 



fig. 2. 

 PlatyrUncus, F. Cuvier, Diet, des So. Nat., xxxix, 1827, 555. Lesson, 



Man. de Mam., 1827, 203 (in part). 

 Otaria, Gill, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7. 



Char. Gex. Palatine bones extending nearly to the pterygoid processes, 

 deeply concave, truncate behind. Molars g^^ = j^. 



. 1. Otaria jubata ("Forster") Blainville. 



Phoca juiata, "Forster, 1775"; Schreber, Erxleben, Gmelin, and other 



early writers. 

 Phoca juiata, Forster, Descrip. Anim. adLicht., 1844, 317 (" Terra Statuum ; 



Insula Novi-anni"). 

 Otaria juiata, Desmarest, Mam., 1820, 248 (in part), and of most recent 



writers. 

 ? Phoca flavcscens, Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 260 (young). 

 Otaria leonina, P:i6ron, Voy. aux Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 40. Also of Desmarest, 



Gray, Peters, and some others. 

 Platyrhincus Jconimts, F. Cuvier, Lesson. 

 Phoca hyroni, Blainville, Journ. de Phys., xci, 1820, 287. Desmarest, 



Mam., 1820, 240 {fideGvay, Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 13). 

 Otaria moUossina, Lesson et Garnot, Voy. Coq., Zool., i, 1826, 140, pi. iii 



("lies Malouines"). 

 Platyrhyncus mollossinus et uranium, Lesson, Man. de Mam., 1827, 204. 

 Otaria pernettyi, Lesson, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828, 420. 

 Otaria pJatyrhinclius et chiJcnsis, MtJLLER, Wiegmann's Archiv fUrNaturgesch.,. 



1841, 333. 

 Otaria leonina, godeffroyi, hyronia, et nlloce, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 



1866, 264, 266, 269, 270, 670, 671. 

 Otaria ulloce, VON Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, 1842-44, 135, 136, pi. vi. 

 Arctocephalus fallcJandicus, Burmeister, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser.,, 



xviii, 1866, j)l. ix, figs. 1-4 (at least in part). 

 Otaria nmior, et pygmaa, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., viii, 



326. 

 Otaria hookeri, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 80. 



Habitat. Galapagos Islands (Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool., from Hassler 

 Expedition), and coasts of South America from Peru and Chili on the Pacific 

 side, and Rio de la Plata on the Atlantic side southward. 



