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Pinnipedia (pinniped)
Taxonomy
Pinnipedia was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant.
It was reranked as the suborder Pinnipedia by Flower (1883), Lydekker (1885), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Gregory (1910), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Kovacs and Lavigne (1986), Tomida (1989), Vidal (1991) and Adam (2004); it was reranked as the infraorder Pinnipedia by Demere (1994); it was synonymized subjectively with Phocoidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pinnipedia by Ameghino (1889), Kellogg (1922), Berta et al. (1989), Berta (1994), Kohno et al. (1995), Kohno (1996), Rice (1998), Berta (2002), Demere et al. (2003), Berta et al. (2006), Kohno and Ray (2008), Berta (2009) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010).
It was assigned to Pinnata by Bonaparte (1850); to Unguiculata by Ameghino (1889); to Mammalia by Illiger (1811), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Abel (1919); to Ferae by Gregory (1910) and Kellogg (1922); to Eutheria by Nowak (1991); to Arctoidea by Kohno et al. (1995) and Kohno (1996); to Ursida by Rice (1998); to Carnivora by Flower (1883), Lydekker (1885), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Kovacs and Lavigne (1986), Tomida (1989), Vidal (1991), Demere (1994), Adam (2004) and Kohno and Ray (2008); to Pinnipediformes by Berta (1994), Berta (2002), Demere et al. (2003) and Berta (2009); and to Pinnipedimorpha by Berta et al. (1989), Berta et al. (2006) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010).
It was reranked as the suborder Pinnipedia by Flower (1883), Lydekker (1885), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Gregory (1910), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Kovacs and Lavigne (1986), Tomida (1989), Vidal (1991) and Adam (2004); it was reranked as the infraorder Pinnipedia by Demere (1994); it was synonymized subjectively with Phocoidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pinnipedia by Ameghino (1889), Kellogg (1922), Berta et al. (1989), Berta (1994), Kohno et al. (1995), Kohno (1996), Rice (1998), Berta (2002), Demere et al. (2003), Berta et al. (2006), Kohno and Ray (2008), Berta (2009) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010).
It was assigned to Pinnata by Bonaparte (1850); to Unguiculata by Ameghino (1889); to Mammalia by Illiger (1811), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Abel (1919); to Ferae by Gregory (1910) and Kellogg (1922); to Eutheria by Nowak (1991); to Arctoidea by Kohno et al. (1995) and Kohno (1996); to Ursida by Rice (1998); to Carnivora by Flower (1883), Lydekker (1885), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Kovacs and Lavigne (1986), Tomida (1989), Vidal (1991), Demere (1994), Adam (2004) and Kohno and Ray (2008); to Pinnipediformes by Berta (1994), Berta (2002), Demere et al. (2003) and Berta (2009); and to Pinnipedimorpha by Berta et al. (1989), Berta et al. (2006) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1811 | Pinnipedia Illiger p. 138 |
| 1850 | Pinnipedia Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1869 | Phoca modesta Leidy p. 415 |
| 1872 | Otaria oudriana Delfortrie |
| 1880 | Squalodon modestus Allen p. 470 |
| 1883 | Pinnipedia Flower p. 186 |
| 1885 | Pinnipedia Lydekker p. 196 |
| 1889 | Pinnipedia Ameghino p. 342 |
| 1889 | Pinnipedia Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Pinnipedia Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1898 | Pinnipedia Trouessart p. 369 |
| 1898 | Mesotaria oudriana Trouessart p. 378 |
| 1902 | Pinnipedia Hay p. 584 |
| 1902 | Squalodon modestus Hay p. 589 |
| 1904 | Pinnipedia Trouessart p. 279 |
| 1904 | Mesotaria oudriana Trouessart p. 282 |
| 1910 | Pinnipedia Gregory p. 465 |
| 1919 | Pinnipedia Abel p. 747 |
| 1922 | Pinnipedia Kellogg p. 101 |
| 1923 | Phoca modesta Kellogg p. 26 |
| 1925 | Pinnipedia Zittel p. 78 |
| 1928 | Pinnipedia Weber p. 342 |
| 1930 | Phoca modesta Hay p. 564 |
| 1971 | Pinnipedia Ginsburg and Janvier p. 162 |
| 1986 | Pinnipedia Kovacs and Lavigne p. 1 |
| 1989 | Pinnipedia Berta et al. p. 61 figs. Fig. 3 |
| 1989 | Pinnipedia Tomida p. 110 |
| 1991 | Pinnipedia Nowak |
| 1991 | Pinnipedia Vidal p. 6 |
| 1994 | Pinnipedia Berta p. 25 figs. Fig. 21 |
| 1994 | Pinnipedia Demere p. 113 |
| 1995 | Pinnipedia Kohno et al. p. 113 |
| 1996 | Pinnipedia Kohno p. 389 |
| 1998 | Pinnipedia Rice |
| 2002 | Pinnipedia Berta p. 923 |
| 2003 | Pinnipedia Demere et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2004 | Pinnipedia Adam p. 1 |
| 2006 | Pinnipedia Berta et al. p. 492 |
| 2008 | Pinnipedia Kohno and Ray p. 44 |
| 2009 | Pinnipedia Berta p. 863 |
| 2010 | Pinnipedia Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
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