CATALOGUE 



SEALS AND WHALES. 



Family PHOCIDiE. 



Cutting-teetli f or f or -f or |, conical or truncated; canines 

 conical, sometimes elongated ; grinders || or ||, 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 five-clawed. Tail very short, depressed, sharp-edged 

 on each side. 



Fera (partim), lAnn. S. N'. i. 56. 



Bruta (part.), Zinn. S. N. i. 48. 



Phoca, JJinn. 8. JVi i. 55 ; Pennant, Syn. Quad. 330 ; Gray, Gfriffith's 



A. K. V. 176. 

 PhocadsB et Trichecidse, Gray, Land. Med. S^os. 1821, 302. 

 Phocidse et Tiichechidse, Gfray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. 

 Phocidse, Gray, Zool. JSreb. ^ Terror ; Cat. Seals B. M.l, 1850. 

 Mammif eras a nageoires, Aatiphibies, Desm. N. Diet. HM. Nat. xxiv. 



34, 1804 

 Amphibia, Gray, Land. Med. Eepos. 1821, 302 ; Latr. Fam. R. A, 

 • 51,1830. 

 Phocaceema, Nilsson, Vetemk. Akad. Handl. 1837, 235 ; lUum. Figurer 



Shand. Fauna, 1840, traml. hy Br. Peters, Wiegm. Arch. vii. 301. 

 (Pinnipedia) Euderfiisse, Illiger, Prodr. 138, 1811; Piippell, Vers. 



Senck. Samml. 167, 1845. 

 Lea Phoques et les Morses, F. Cm. Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 463, 465, 1829 ; 



Duvernoy, Tab. R. A. 

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

 Ursi (part.), Wagler, N. S. Amph. 27, 1830. 

 Cynomorpha (Phoca et Otaria), Zatr. Fam. R. A. 51, 1825. 

 Brocha (Morse), Latr. Fam. JR. A. 52, 1825. 

 Phoques, J^. Cuv. Dents des Mamm,. 113, 1825. 



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