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OverviewAI-generated
Arctocephalinae is a taxon classified as a subfamily within the family Otariidae. The group is also referred to by the name "Arctocephalinae."
According to GBIF records, the taxon key is 2418306, and it is listed at the genus rank. These records place the organism in the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Elasmobranchii, order Carcharhiniformes, and family Triakidae.
The subject is referenced by 689 other encyclopedia articles. A PubMed query for "fur seal" yields a count of 1246, while the occurrence count is listed as 0.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassElasmobranchii
- OrderCarcharhiniformes
- FamilyTriakidae
via GBIF
Research
1,246 papers- Sleep in the northern fur seal.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2017
- Fur seal adaptations to lactation: insights into mammary gland function.Current topics in developmental biology · 2006
- Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella).Wilderness & environmental medicine · 2021
- Fur Seal Feces-Associated Circular DNA Virus Identified in Pigs in Anhui, China.Virologica Sinica · 2021
- Adenovirus Diversity in Fur Seal and Penguin Colonies of South America.Journal of wildlife diseases · 2021
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae. They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears (pinnae), relatively long and muscular foreflippers, and the ability to walk on all fours. They are marked by their dense underfur, which made them a long-time object of commercial hunting. Eight species belong to the genus Arctocephalus and are found primarily in the Southern Hemisphere, while a ninth species also sometimes called fur seal, the Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), belongs to a different genus and inhabits the North Pacific. The fur seals in Arctocephalus are more closely related to sea lions than they are to the Northern fur seal, but all three groups are more closely related to one another than they are to true seals.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fur seal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.