Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Eutheria > Order Carnivora > Suborder Caniformia > Infraorder Pinnipedia > Family Phocidae

Cystophora Nilsson, 1820

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cystophora cristata (Erxleben, 1777)

Literature

original description	Nilsson, S. (1820). III. Blas-Skälar, Cystophora, Nilss., in: Skandinavisk Fauna Del 1: Däggande Djuren. Lund. Berlingska boktryckeriet. 382-387.
basis of record	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376