Species Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816)

Australian Sea-lion, west coast of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Pair of Australian Sea-lions, west coast of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

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Species Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816)

Australian Sea-lion

Otaria cinerea Péron, F. 1816. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, Exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goellette le Casuarina, pendant les Années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris : Imprimere Royale Vol. 1 & 2 + atlas xxxii 472 pp. [54].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Kangaroo Is., SA (as Île Decrès).
Otaria albicollis Péron, F. 1816. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, Exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goellette le Casuarina, pendant les Années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris : Imprimere Royale Vol. 1 & 2 + atlas xxxii 472 pp. [118] [description based on adult male Otaria cinerea].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, St Peter Is., Nuyts Archipelago, SA.
Arctocephalus lobatus Gray, E.J. 1828. Spicilegia Zoologica; or original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. London : Treuttel, Wurtz & Co. Part 1 8 pp., pls. I-VI. [1].
Type data:
Lectotype RMNH 13442 skull, Houtman's Abrolhos, WA, Rivoli Bay, SA
Comment: see King, J.E. 1960. Sea-lions of the genera Neophoca and Phocarctos. Mammalia 24: 445-456 for comments re location of type.
Subsequent designation references:
Gray, J.E. 1874. Hand-list of Seals, Morses, Sea-lions, and Sea-bears in the British Museum. London : British Museum 44 pp., 30 pls.
Type locality references:
King, J.E. 1960. Sea-lions of the genera Neophoca and Phocarctos. Mammalia 24: 445-456; Ray, C.E. & Ling, J.K. 1981. A well documented early record of the Australian sea lion. Archives of Natural History 10(1): 155-171.
Secondary source:
Scheffer, V.B. 1958. Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. A review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford : Stanford University Press x 179 pp. 32 pls.
Otaria australis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, [J.P.] 1830. Pinnipedia. pp. 89-99 in Dumont d'Urville, J.S.C (ed.). Voyages de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe, Exécutés par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1829 sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1. [93].
Type data:
Status unknown, King George Sound, WA.
Secondary source:
Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Scheffer, V.B. 1958. Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. A review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford : Stanford University Press x 179 pp. 32 pls. [64-65]

Generic Combinations

Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)