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Phocidae

noun
1.
Earless seals.  Synonym: family Phocidae.





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... a scrotum: in either case the position of the testes corresponds to the absence of what Dr. Woodland calls impulsiveness in progression. The Fissipedia offer an instructive example, for while the Otariidae have the hind feet turned forward and can move on land somewhat like ordinary Mammals, the Phocidae cannot move their hind legs independently or turn them forward, and can only drag themselves about on land for short distances. In the former the testes are situated in a well-defined scrotum, in the latter these organs are abdominal. The Phocidae are probably descended from Mammals of the ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham


Words linked to "Phocidae" :   Pagophilus, hair seal, genus Mirounga, Phoca, mammal family, genus Phoca, Pinnipedia, family Phocidae, genus Cystophora, suborder Pinnipedia, genus Pagophilus, Cystophora, genus Erignathus, Mirounga, earless seal, Erignathus, true seal


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