Records of vagrant phocid seals (family Phocidae) in South Australia

• Published in: Australian Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Shaughnessy, P., Kemper, C., Ling, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CSIRO Publishing 2012
• Subjects: crabeater seal; leopard seal; Ross seal; southern elephant seal; Weddell seal; Southern Ocean; Weddell; Kangaroo Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Crabeater Seal; Crabeater Seals; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Leopard Seal; Macquarie Island; Ross Seal; Southern Elephant Seal; Weddell Seal
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/91899; https://doi.org/10.1071/AM11036

Five species of phocid seal of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica come ashore occasionally on the southern Australian coast but do not breed there. We document records (specimens and sightings) of visits to South Australia (SA) by southern phocids from 1883 until August 2011. We used records from the...