A DESCRIPTION OF COMMON SEALS, PHOCA VITULINA L. 1758, FROM SVALBARD

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Author: Wiig, ØYstein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1989
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Svalbard; Prins Karls Forland; common seal; Phoca vitulina; Rossøya
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.1989.tb00329.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1748-7692.1989.tb00329.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1748-7692.1989.tb00329.x

A bstract The present analysis confirms that the northernmost record of common seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in the world is at Svalbard nearly at 81°N. The population at Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard, is about 900 km away from any other population of common seals and may be termed insular. External and...