Life Mammalia Carnivora Phocidae

• Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 Iceland, Eurpean coasts (N.Portugal - Arctic Norway), N.Pacific coasts (Shantung, S.Japan - Bering Straits), Alaska coasts, Aleutian Islands - California, W.Atlantic (New York - Ellesmere Island, Hudson Bay). See [maps] Common seal Kirjohylje

  • Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 38; TL: Gulf of Bothnia
  • variegata
  • canina
  • linnaei
  • littorea
  • scopulicola
  • thienemanni; (Iceland)
  • vitulina stejnegeri Allen, 1902; (Pacific coast)
  • Phoca ochotensis kurilensis Inukai, 1942; ; TL: S. Kurile Islands
  • Phoca insularis Belkin, 1964; ; TL: Cape Dokuchaeva, Iturup Island, Kuriles
  • Phoca concolor De Kay, 1842; Zoology of New Your, ... 1: pt. 1 (Mammalia), 53; TL: Long Island Sound, near Sands Point, Nassau Co., N.Y.
  • Phoca vitulina mellonae Doutt, 1942; Ann. Carnegie Mus., 29: 111; TL: Lower Seal Lake, Quebec, c. 90 miles east of Richmond Gulf, Hudson Bay, 56°30'N, 74°30'W
  • Halicyon richardii Gray, 1864; Proc. Zool. Soc. Londong 1864: pt. 1, 28; TL: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
  • Phoca richardii geronimensis J. A. Allan, 1902; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 16: 495; TL: San Gerónimo Island, Baja California,México
  • ?richardsi

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• Phoca largha Pallas, 1811 NW.Pacific coasts (N.China - Bering Straits). See [maps] Larga Seal

  • Phoca largha Pallas, 1811; Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1: 113; TL: E. Kamchatka
  • chorisii
  • macrodens
  • mummularis; (part)
  • pallasi
  • petersi
  • Phoca tigrina Lesson, 1827; (Kamchatka)
• Phoca hispida Schreber, 1775 Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Okhotsk Seas, Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Gulf of Finland, Lake Saimaa, Lake Ladoga Ringed Seal Norppa

  • Phoca hispida Schreber, 1775; Die Säugthiere ..., Theil 3 (Heft 13): pl 86; TL: Coasts of Greenland and Labrador
  • anellata
  • birulai
  • Phoca foetida Fabricius
  • pomororum; (Novaya Zemblya)
  • pygmaera
  • rochmistrovi
  • hispida botnica Gmelin, 1788
  • ladogensis; (L. Ladoga)
  • octonata
  • hispida ochotensis Pallas, 1811; ; TL: Sea of Okhotsk, E. Siberia
  • gichigensis
  • mummularis; (Japan)
  • hispida krascheninikovi Naumov & Smirnov, 1935; ; TL: Bering Sea
  • Phoca hispida beaufortiana Anderson, 1943; Ann. Rep. Provancher Soc. Nat. Hist., Quebec, 1942: 25; TL: Cockburn Point, Dolphin and Union Strait, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada, (68°55'29''N, c. 115°10'W)
  • Phoca hispida soperi Anderson, 1942; Ann. Rep. Provancher Soc. Nat. Hist., Quebec, 1942: 27; TL: Near mouth of Takuirbing River, at eastern end of Nettilling Lake about 85 feet above sea level, Baffin Island, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories, Canada, (66°16'N, 74°33'36''W)
  • P. h. saimensis Nordq. Lake Saimaa Saimaannorppa Saimaa Ringed Seal

    Is included in Phoca hispida botnica, but listed separately here anyways. -- msa

• Phoca caspica Gmelin, 1788 Caspian Sea Caspian Seal

  • Phoca vitulina var. caspica Gmelin, 1788; in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (13th edn) 1 (1): 64; TL: Caspian Sea
• Phoca sibirica Gmelin, 1788 Lake Baikal Baikal Seal

  • Phoca vitulina var. sibirica Gmelin, 1788; in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (13th edn) 1 (1): 64; TL: Lake Baikal
  • baicalensis
  • oronensis

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