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Under construction Taxon: Genus Odobenus M.J. Brisson, 1762, nom. cons. - walrus
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Authorship

Original nameBrisson, M.J. 1762.: 30
Original rank
Original spelling

Attributes

Conserved name (nom. cons.)[International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1957e.]

Types

Type ofOdobenina (Subtribe) (Allen, 1880) R.H. Tedford, in M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
Type, by synonymyOdobenus rosmarus (C. Linnaeus, 1758)

Variants

Different spellingOdobenos (Genus)

Taxonomic positions

Subsequent positionOdobenina (Subtribe) (Allen, 1880) R.H. Tedford, in M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997[R.H. Tedford, 1997: 256]

Vernacular Names

English:walrus

Number of Subtaxa

2013Available in Systema Naturae 20001s;3ss; †2s
1993W.C. Wozencraft[1s]
1991G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill[1s]
1982A.F. DeBlase1s
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