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Spotted Seal

Mammals

The spotted seal, also called the larga or largha seal, is an earless seal that inhabits ice floes and waters of the North Pacific, primarily along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas, ranging south to the northern Yellow Sea and western Sea of Japan and into Alaskan waters during the ice-free summer and autumn. It is closely related to, and often mingles with, the harbor seal in areas where their ranges overlap, and the two are sometimes mistaken for one another. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Piscivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
System (Realm)
Marine 3
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Scientific Name
Phoca largha 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 3
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Phoca, Taxa
Source Spotted seal (Wikidata)
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Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Spotted seal (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q494968 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, habitat (P2974): Terrestrial
    Wikidata habitat statement (P2974) resolves to a terrestrial habitat type.
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
  • Child Taxon Of: Phoca, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q878742 (Phoca)
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3. Spotted seal (Wikipedia)
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    The spotted seal, also called the larga or largha seal, is an earless seal that inhabits ice floes and waters of the North Pacific, primarily along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas, ranging south to the northern Yellow Sea and western Sea of Japan and into Alaskan waters during the ice-free summer and autumn.
  • Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
    status = LC
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