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SPECIES Erignathus barbatus
| Author: | Erxleben, 1777. | | Citation: | Syst. Regni Anim., 1: 590. | | Common Name: | Bearded Seal | | Type Locality: | "ad Scotiam atque Groelandiam australiorem, vulgaris circa Islandiam" [North Atlantic, S Greenland]. | | Distribution: | Circumpolar Arctic seas and coastal regions of Canada, China (Zhejiang-vagrant), France (vagrant), Great Britian (vagrant), Greenland, Iceland, Japan (south to Hokkaido), Norway, Portugal (vagrant), Russia, Spain (vagrant), USA (Alaska, Massachusetts -vagrant). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Hall (1981). |
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