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SPECIES Monachus monachus

Author:Hermann, 1779.
Citation:Beschaft. Berlin Ges. Naturforsch. Fr., 4: 501, pls. 12, 13.
Common Name:Mediterranean Monk Seal
Type Locality:"Dalmation Sea at Ossero." [Serbia and Montenegro] King (1956).
Distribution:Coastal regions of Mediterranean and Black Seas and NW Africa to Cape Blanc: Algeria, Balearic Isls, Cape Verde, Crete, Cyprus, France, Gambia, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, Senegal, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey. status: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.
Status:albiventer(Boddaert, 1785); atlantica (Gray, 1854); bicolor (Shaw, 1800); crinita (Menis, 1848); hermannii (Lesson, 1828); isidorei (Lesson, 1843); leucogaster (Péron and Lesueur, 1816); mediterraneus Nilsson, 1838.
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    albiventer (Boddaert, 1785)
    atlantica (Gray, 1854)
    bicolor (Shaw, 1800)
    crinita (Menis, 1848)
    hermannii (Lesson, 1828)
    isidorei (Lesson, 1843)
    leucogaster (Péron and Lesueur, 1816)
    mediterraneus Nilsson, 1838
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