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Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
While the diversity of ‘southern seals’, or Monachinae, in the North Atlantic realm is currently limited to the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, their diversity was much higher during the late Miocene and Pliocene.
Pjotr Meyvisch, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Leonard Dewaele   +2 more
exaly   +8 more sources

In-air hearing in Hawaiian monk seals: implications for understanding the auditory biology of Monachinae seals [PDF]

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 2021
AbstractThe auditory biology of Monachinae seals is poorly understood. Limited audiometric data and certain anatomical features suggest that these seals may have reduced sensitivity to airborne sounds compared to related species. Here, we describe the in-air hearing abilities of a Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) trained to participate in
Jillian M. Sills, Brandi Ruscher, Colleen Reichmuth   +2 more
exaly   +10 more sources

A late surviving Pliocene seal from high latitudes of the North Atlantic realm: the latest monachine seal on the southern margin of the North Sea [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background The family of true seals, the Phocidae, is subdivided into two subfamilies: the southern Monachinae, and the northern Phocinae, following the subfamilies’ current distribution: extant Monachinae are largely restricted to the (sub-)Antarctic ...
Leonard Dewaele, Olivier Lambert, Stephen Louwye   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

A new large-bodied Pliocene seal with unusual cutting teeth [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
Today, monachine seals display the largest body sizes in pinnipeds. However, the evolution of larger body sizes has been difficult to assess due to the murky taxonomic status of fossil seals, including fossils referred to Callophoca obscura, a species ...
David P. Hocking, James Rule, Alistair Evans   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) de novo genomes to study the demographic history and genetic diversity of southern seals [PDF]

BMC Biology
Background The Monachinae, or southern seals, are one of two subfamilies within the Phocidae and are home to iconic pinnipeds such as the leopard seal, a fierce Antarctic top predator, and the Mediterranean monk seal, one of the world’s most endangered ...
Marcel Nebenführ, Alexander Ben Hamadou, Alex Aguilar, Asunción Borrell, Georgios A. Gkafas, Axel Janke   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

A new monachine seal (Monachinae, Phocidae, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Cerro La Bruja (Ica department, Peru)

Geodiversitas
In the present study, we present a new monachine phocid, Magophoca brevirostris n. gen., n. sp., the fifth monachine described from the Pisco Formation (Peru). Coming from the Cerro la Bruja level at the locality of the same name, Magophoca n. gen. is the geologically oldest known seal from the Neogene of the southeast Pacific, dated at least to the ...
Christian de Muizon, Leonard Dewaele
exaly   +5 more sources

True seals achieved global distribution by breaking Bergmann's rule. [PDF]

Evolution, 2022
Abstract True seals (phocids) have achieved a global distribution by crossing the equator multiple times in their evolutionary history. This is remarkable, as warm tropical waters are regarded as a barrier to marine mammal dispersal and—following Bergmann's rule—may have limited crossings to small‐bodied species only.
Rule JP, Marx FG, Evans AR, Fitzgerald EMG, Adams JW.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Early monk seals (Monachinae: Monachini) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene of Australia

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2021
Despite decades of research, the systematics of extinct true seals (Phocidae) is still overly reliant on morphological data from extant taxa. As a result, monk seals (Monachini) have been interpreted as ‘archaic’ despite an absence of fossil data to support this hypothesis.
James Rule, Justin W. Adams, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

First Insights into the Home Range of an Adult Male Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus in the Ionian Sea, Greece, and Considerations About the Future Management of the Area [PDF]

Animals
From August 2021 to December 2023, one adult male Mediterranean monk seal was repeatedly registered, through a systematic monitoring camera system, frequenting a marine cave in southern Kefalonia Island, central Ionian Sea, Greece.
Aliki Panou, Spyros Tsoukalas, Anastasios Anestis, Luigi Bundone   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020
Alan Tennyson, James Rule, Felix G. Marx
exaly   +2 more sources