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Neophoca cinerea (Australian sea lion)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae

Taxonomy
Otaria cinerea was named by Peron (1816). It is extant.

It was recombined as Arctocephalus cinereus by Gray (1850), Gray (1871) and Gray (1873); it was recombined as Arctocephalus cinerea by Gray (1866); it was recombined as Eumetopias cinerea by Turner (1912); it was recombined as Neophoca cinerea by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Riedman (1990), Ling (1992), Deméré et al. (2003), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Cullen et al. (2014) and Berta et al. (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1816Otaria cinerea Peron
1816Otaria albicollis Péron p. 118
1828Arctocephalus lobatus Gray
1830Otaria australis Quoy and Gaimard
1850Arctocephalus cinereus Gray p. 43
1850Arctocephalus lobatus Gray p. 44
1850Arctocephalus australis Gray p. 45
1859Arctocephalus lobatus Gray
1866Neophoca lobatus Gray p. 50
1866Arctocephalus cinerea Gray p. 56
1866Arctocephalus australis Gray p. 57
1870Zalophus lobatus Allen p. 44
1871Arctocephalus cinereus Gray p. 20
1871Neophoca lobata Gray p. 28
1873Arctocephalus cinereus Gray p. 143
1874Arctocephalus australis Gray
1877Arctocephalus williamsi McCoy pp. 7-9 figs. Plates 41-42
1880Zalophus lobatus Allen p. 209
1898Eumetopias (Zalophus) lobatus Trouessart p. 371
1898Arctocephalus australis Trouessart p. 373
1904Eumetopias (Zalophus) lobatus Trouessart p. 279
1904Arctocephalus australis Trouessart p. 280
1912Eumetopias cinerea Turner p. 171
1922Zalophus lobatus Kellogg p. 107
1922Zalophus williamsi Kellogg p. 107
1963Neophoca cinerea Scheffer and Rice p. 2
1977Neophoca cinerea Repenning and Tedford p. 73
1990Neophoca cinerea Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2
1992Neophoca cinerea Ling p. 1
2003Neophoca cinerea Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2005Neophoca cinerea Wilson and Reeder p. 592
2014Neophoca cinerea Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2018Neophoca cinerea Berta et al. p. 215 figs. FIg. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
—Pinnipedimorpha
—Pinnipedia()
superfamilyOtarioidea
familyOtariidae()
genusNeophocaGray 1866
speciescinerea(Peron 1816)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Neophoca cinerea Peron 1816 [Australian sea lion]
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Invalid names: Arctocephalus lobatus Gray 1828 [synonym], Arctocephalus williamsi McCoy 1877 [synonym], Otaria albicollis Péron 1816 [synonym], Otaria australis Quoy and Gaimard 1830 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean

Composition: hydroxyapatiteuc
Ontogeny: modification of partsuc
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: amphibiousuc
Diet: piscivoret
Reproduction: viviparousuc
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-06-08 12:11:09
Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Gingerich 2003, Carreño and Cronin 1993

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Australia (Victoria) Arctocephalus williamsi (59980)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Western Australia) Neophoca cinerea (90122 90123 90124 168606)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Victoria) Neophoca cinerea (168607)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (South Australia) Neophoca cinerea (90125 90127)