ODONTOB3ENUS. MIROUNGA. ■« 439 



Family II. Odoiitohieiiida'. 



Genus 137. <><l<>iit<»I>aMiiis. \\ alrus. 



Odobenus (sic) Briss., Reg. Anim., 2d ed., 1762, pp. 12, 30. Type 

 Phoca rosmariis Linnaeus. 



1058. Odontob£enus rosmarus (Linnaeus). 



Phoca rosmanis Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 38. 

 Trichechus rosmarus Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, p. 49. Elliot, Syn. 

 N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901. p. 358, pi. xli. Zool. 

 Ser. 

 Atlantic Walrus. 



Type locality. Eastern part of Arctic Sea. North Atlantic. 

 Geogr. Distr. Coast of Labrador north to Arctic Ocean; shores 

 of Greenland, boreal islands and polar areas. 



1059. Odontobienus obesus (Illiger). 



Trichechus rosmarus Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, p. 234, fig. 68. 



(Part.) 

 Trichechus obesus Illig., Abhandl. d. Akad. Berl., 181 5, pp. 64, 70, 



75. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 



p. 358. Zool. Ser. 

 Trichechus divergens Illig., Abhandl. d. Akad. Berl., 1815, p. 68. 

 Rosmarus cookii Fremery, Bydrag. tot de naturk. Wetensch., vi, 



i83i,p. 3S5. 

 Rosmarus arcticus Pall., Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., 183 1, p. 269, pis. xxviii, 



XXIX. 



Pacific Walrus. 



Type locality. Western Arctic Seas. 



Geogr. Distr. Northwest coast of North America in Arctic Ocean 

 and Bering Sea and certain of the latter's islands ; Kotzbue and Norton 

 sounds and Bristol Bav; also on northeastern coast of Asia. 



Family III. Pliot'ida'. 



Subfamily I. Cystophorinse. 



Genus 138. ^liroiiii^a. Sea Elephants. 



Mirounga Gray, in Griff., Cuvier's Anim. Kingd., v, 1827, p. 179. 

 (Part.) Type Phoca prohoscidea Peron = Phoca leonina Lin- 

 naeus. 

 Macrorhiiius F. Cuv., Diet. Scien. Nat., xxxix, 1826, p. 552. (nee 

 Latreille, Coleopt., 1825.) 



