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Trichechinae
Taxonomy
Trichechidae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Rosmaridae by Gill (1866); it was reranked as the subfamily Trichechinae by Gray (1866) and Domning (1994); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobaenidae by Allen (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobenidae by Weber (1928) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Cetae by Gray (1825); to Phocidae by Gray (1866); to Pinnipedia by Ameghino (1889); to Pinnipedia by Bonaparte (1850), Gray (1871), Flower (1883), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Pinnipedia by Lydekker (1885), Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Zittel (1925); and to Trichechidae by Domning (1994).
It was synonymized subjectively with Rosmaridae by Gill (1866); it was reranked as the subfamily Trichechinae by Gray (1866) and Domning (1994); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobaenidae by Allen (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobenidae by Weber (1928) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Cetae by Gray (1825); to Phocidae by Gray (1866); to Pinnipedia by Ameghino (1889); to Pinnipedia by Bonaparte (1850), Gray (1871), Flower (1883), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Pinnipedia by Lydekker (1885), Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Zittel (1925); and to Trichechidae by Domning (1994).
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1825 | Trichechidae Gray p. 340 |
| 1850 | Trichechidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1866 | Trichechinae Gray p. 31 |
| 1871 | Trichechidae Gray p. 4 |
| 1883 | Trichechidae Flower p. 185 |
| 1885 | Trichechidae Lydekker p. 197 |
| 1889 | Trichechidae Ameghino p. 342 |
| 1891 | Trichechidae Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1898 | Trichecidae Trouessart p. 375 |
| 1904 | Trichechidae Trouessart p. 281 |
| 1925 | Trichechidae Zittel p. 78 |
| 1994 | Trichechinae Domning p. 189 |
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