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Harbor Seal
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758
Also calledBorjúfóka (hun) · Foca comune (ita) · Foca común (spa) · Foca moteada (spa) · Foca-vitulina (por) · Foka pospolita (pol) · Gewone zeehond (nld) · Kirjohylje (fin) · Knubbsäl (swe) · Landselur (isl) · Liman focu (tur) · Morloi Cyffredin (cym) · Navadni tjulenj (slv) · Paprastasis ruonis (lit)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
materials_examined
MNHN-ZM-AC- 1983 - 792, MNHN-ZM-AC- 1894 - 524, USNM 15276, USNM 21056, USNM 219876, USNM 283568, USNM 504298, USNM 550060, USNM 550330, USNM 593947, USNM 594137, USNM 594207;
Icaphoca choristodon n. gen., n. sp., a new monachine seal (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Neogene of Peru
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Phoca vitulina subsp. vitulina Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Phoca vitulina subsp. concolor De Kay 1842 Subspecies Phoca vitulina subsp. mellonae Doutt 1942 Subspecies Phoca vitulina subsp. richardii Gray 1864 Subspecies Phoca vitulina subsp. stejnegeri J. A. Allen 1902
Order Carnivora
conservation
Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient as P. v. mellonae, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Order Carnivora
discussion
Discussion: The position of stegjnegeri remains uncertain; Scheffer (1958) placed it in largha; King (1983) placed it in vitulina; and Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) suggested incertae sedis. Reviewed by Shaughnessy and Fay (1977), Burns et al. (1984), and Smith et al. (1994). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Rice (1998).
Order Carnivora
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2434793.