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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Phocidae
--> GENUS Pusa
SPECIES Pusa hispida
| Author: | Schreber, 1775. | | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 2(13): pl. 86[1775]; see also text 3(17):312[1776]. | | Common Name: | Ringed Seal | | Type Locality: | "Man fängt ihn auf den Küsten von Grönland und Labrader". | | Distribution: | Arctic Ocean and coastal regions of Açôres (vagrant), Canada (Nettilling Lake, Baffin Isl), China (vagrant: Jiangsu), Estonia, Finland (Saimaa Lake), Germany (vagrant), Greenland, Japan (Hokkaido, vagrant: Shikoku, Kyushu), Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal (vagrant), Russia (Okhotsk, Bering, and Baltic Seas), Sweden, USA (vagrant: New Jersey, California). | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered as Phoca hispida saimensis; IUCN – Endangered as P. h. saimensis, Vulnerable as P. h. botnica and P. h. ladogensis, Lower Risk as P. hispida and as P. h. ochotensis. | | Comments: | Placed in Pusa Scopoli, 1771, by Scheffer (1958) and Rice (1998). Mohr (1952) described successful mating in captivity between Pusa hispida and Halichoerus grypus. |
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