440 FAMILY PHOCID^. 



cases referable with certainty to other species. Three nominal 

 species of previous authors are correctly allocated. All are in- 

 troduced under the generic name (or rather "sous-genre" as 

 he terms it) Fhoca, and all are true Phocids. His accepted 

 species are the following : 1. Fhoca prohoscidea ; 2. PJioca coxii 

 (sp. nov.= " Sea Lion, John Henry Cox, Description of the Island 

 called St.-Paulo by the Dutch, and by the English" = P. resima, 

 Peron = Macrorliinus leoninus, female) ; 3. Phoca monaclms 

 (correctly covers P. Mcolor, Shaw, and P. albiventer Bodd.) ; 4. 

 Fhoca grcenlandica (includes P. oceanica, Lepechin); 5. Fhoca 

 cristata; 6. P/ioca Ze^on'wa (ex Lepechin); 7. Fhoca vitulina ; 8. 

 Fhoca maculata (ex Boddaert) ; 9. Fhoca hispida ( = P. fcetida) ; 

 10. Fhoca lalihtak (sp. nov. = Lachtak, Krascheninikow) ; 11. 

 Phoca lupina (ex Molina). Only six of these are valid, to which 

 may be added one from the list of doubtful species, making- 

 seven in all. 



In 1820 Desmarest gave a second account of the Earless 

 Seals in the "Encyclopedic methodique" (vol. clxxxii, Mammal- 

 ogie, Part i, 1820, pp. 237-247, Part ii, 1822, 541), recognizing 

 thirteen species as valid, all of which are referred, as before, to 

 Peron's "subgenus" Fhoca. They are: 1. Phoca proJjoscidea 

 (= Macrorhiniis leoninus) ; 2. Phoca ansoni (cites ^^ Phoca leonina, 

 Linn., Gmel., Erxl."), based in part on a skull of Otaria juhata, 

 and in part on Anson's Sea Lion, which is his Phoca prohos- 

 cidea; 3. Fhoca byroni (ex Blainville MSS., based, it is stated, 

 on a skull in the Hunterian collection labelled "Sea Lion from 

 the Island of Tinian, by Commodore Byron"; = Macrorhinus 

 leoninus)', 4. Fhoca cristata; 5. Fhoca monachus ; Q. Fhoca ocean- 

 ica; 7. Fhoca leporina; 8. Fhoca vitulina; 9. Fhoca grcen- 

 landica; 10. Fhoca fcetida; 11. Fhoca harhata; 12. Phoca leptonyx 

 (" Blainv.") ; 13. Fhoca albicauda {=Fhoca grcenlandica). Of these 

 thirteen species three {Fhoca ansoni, P. hyroni, and P. albicauda) 

 are here first named; all are nominal. Two other nominal 

 species are Lepechin's Phoca oceanica and P. leporina, leaving 

 eight valid species. Desmarest appends a list of eleven species, 

 briefly characterized, "qui sont bien moins connus" than those 

 more formally recognized, these being as follows: 1. Phoca 

 lupina ; 2. Fhoca coxii ; 3. Phoca longicolUs ; 4. Phoca testudi- 

 nea; 5. Phoca fa sciata ; 6. Fhoca punctata ; 7. Fhoca maculata ; 

 8. Fhoca nigra; 9. Le Phoque laMtah (= Fhoca laTctal; Desm., 

 1817); 10. Le Phoque tigre ; 11. Le Phoque grumm-selur. 



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