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--> GENUS Phoca
SPECIES Phoca largha
| Author: | Pallas, 1811. | | Citation: | Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1: 113. | | Common Name: | Spotted Seal | | Type Locality: | "quam quod observetur tantum ad orientale littus Camtschatcae" [Eastern coast of Kamchatka, Russia (Shaughnessy and Fay, 1977)]. | | Distribution: | Associated with pack ice in coastal N Pacific of Canada, China (south to Fujian), Japan (south to Shikoku), Russia (Bering and Okhotsk Seas), USA (Alaska). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Scheffer (1958) considered largha as conspecific with vitulina; however, Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) and King (1983) separated the two. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
chorisii Lesson, 1828
macrodens J. A. Allen, 1902
nummularis Temminck, 1844
ochotensis J. A. Allen, 1902
pallasii Naumov and Smirnov, 1936
petersi Mohr, 1941
pribilofensis Allen, 1902
tigrina Lesson, 1827
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