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Harbor Seal

Phoca vitulina

Order
Carnivora
Family
Phocidae
Genus
Phoca
IUCN status
LC
Distribution
Belgium|Canada|Denmark|Finland|France|Germany|Greenland|Iceland|Ireland|Japan|Mexico|Netherlands|Norway|Russia|Sweden|United Kingdom|United States|Portugal|Spain
Realm
Marine

Other names: Common Seal|Harbour Seal|Eastern Atlantic Harbor Seal|Western Atlantic Harbor Seal|Eastern Pacific Harbor Seal|Kuril Seal|Western Pacific Harbor Seal

About this species

Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) is a true seal recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Near threatened (Japan MOE Red List 2020).

Description: Wildlife of Japan guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com)

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CC-BY-SA-2.5 — Andreas Trepte — via Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata) (source)