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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).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1811Pinnipedia Illiger p. 138
1850Pinnipedia Bonaparte p. 1
1869Phoca modesta Leidy p. 415
1872Otaria oudriana Delfortrie
1880Squalodon modestus Allen p. 470
1883Pinnipedia Flower p. 186
1885Pinnipedia Lydekker p. 196
1889Pinnipedia Ameghino p. 342
1889Pinnipedia Cope p. 876
1891Pinnipedia Flower and Lydekker p. 91
1898Pinnipedia Trouessart p. 369
1898Mesotaria oudriana Trouessart p. 378
1902Pinnipedia Hay p. 584
1902Squalodon modestus Hay p. 589
1904Pinnipedia Trouessart p. 279
1904Mesotaria oudriana Trouessart p. 282
1910Pinnipedia Gregory p. 465
1919Pinnipedia Abel p. 747
1922Pinnipedia Kellogg p. 101
1923Phoca modesta Kellogg p. 26
1925Pinnipedia Zittel p. 78
1928Pinnipedia Weber p. 342
1930Phoca modesta Hay p. 564
1971Pinnipedia Ginsburg and Janvier p. 162
1986Pinnipedia Kovacs and Lavigne p. 1
1989Pinnipedia Berta et al. p. 61 figs. Fig. 3
1989Pinnipedia Tomida p. 110
1991Pinnipedia Nowak
1991Pinnipedia Vidal p. 6
1994Pinnipedia Berta p. 25 figs. Fig. 21
1994Pinnipedia Demere p. 113
1995Pinnipedia Kohno et al. p. 113
1996Pinnipedia Kohno p. 389
1998Pinnipedia Rice
2002Pinnipedia Berta p. 923
2003Pinnipedia Demere et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004Pinnipedia Adam p. 1
2006Pinnipedia Berta et al. p. 492
2008Pinnipedia Kohno and Ray p. 44
2009Pinnipedia Berta p. 863
2010Pinnipedia Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1

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