'Fur seal' is a common name that does not correspond to a single taxonomic unit. For a more comprehensive discussion of all eared seals, including the sea lions, see Otariid.
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Fur seal
A group of brown fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Clade:
Pinnipedia
Family:
Otariidae
Subfamily:
Arctocephalinae Scheffer & Rice 1963
Genera
Arctocephalus Callorhinus
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.
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