Phocarctos Peters, 1866 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 269.

COMMENT: Some authors (Stains, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 349; Corbet and Hill, 1980) include this genus in Neophoca; but see Rice, 1977, and King, 1960, Mammalia, 24:445-456.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301413001006000000.