Nature Atlas

How Nature Works
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Species

Spotted Seal

Mammals

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

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.

Sources
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.