Phoca largha Pallas 1811
15. Spotted Seal Phoca largha French: Phoque tacheté / German: Largha-Seehund / Spanish: Foca manchada Other common names: Largha Seal Taxonomy. Phoca largha Pallas, 1811, quam quod observetur tantum ad orientale littus Camtschatcae” (= Eastern coast of Kamchatka, Russia). This species is monotypic....
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:6606920 2024-09-15T17:52:28+00:00 Phoca largha Pallas 1811 Russell A. Mittermeier Don E. Wilson 2014-07-31 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6606920 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/464F694FFFA4A858FACED4B49235FE27 unknown Lynx Edicions https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6607185 http://publication.plazi.org/id/BA761137FFAAA857FFF1D6539643FF96 https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/464F694FFFA4A858FACED4B49235FE27 https://www.gbif.org/species/195723879 https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/62712/taxon/464F694FFFA4A858FACED4B49235FE27.taxon https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6607265 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6607240 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6606919 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6606920 oai:zenodo.org:6606920 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/464F694FFFA4A858FACED4B49235FE27 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Phocidae Phoca Phoca largha info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2014 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.660692010.5281/zenodo.660718510.5281/zenodo.660726510.5281/zenodo.660724010.5281/zenodo.6606919 2024-07-26T21:10:38Z 15. Spotted Seal Phoca largha French: Phoque tacheté / German: Largha-Seehund / Spanish: Foca manchada Other common names: Largha Seal Taxonomy. Phoca largha Pallas, 1811, quam quod observetur tantum ad orientale littus Camtschatcae” (= Eastern coast of Kamchatka, Russia). This species is monotypic. Distribution. N Pacific Ocean, from the Yellow and Bohai seas in N China N through Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, and Chukchi Sea to W Beaufort Sea and Alaska. Descriptive notes. Total length 161-176 cm (males) and 151-169 cm (females); weight 85-110 kg (males) and 65-115 kg (females). Newborns are 77-92 cm in length and weigh 7-12 kg. Spotted Seals are medium-sized, with a variable pelage that ranges dorsally from a dark gray to silver or tan background and slightly lighter ventrally, with dark splotches and spots scattered over the body. Newborns have a thick woolly creamy lanugo (fine, soft hair) that is molted near or just after weaning at c.3—4 weeks of age. Habitat. Particularly in areas of seasonal pack ice, with a pelagic distribution in winter and spring and a different coastal and pelagic distribution during ice-free months. For example, south of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska,in late winter, Spotted Seals avoided large ice floes (more than 48 m in diameter) and preferred small ice floes (less than 20 m in diameter) ice floes. In contrast, sympatric Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida) and Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) preferred large ice floes, and Bearded Seals (Erignathus barbatus) preferred areas between large and small ice floes. Food and Feeding. Spotted Seals have a diverse diet of crustaceans, cephalopods, and fish, including walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), Arctic cod (primarily Boreogadus saida), sand lance (Ammodytidae), capelin (Mallotus villosus), saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis), Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), flounders, and salmon, depending on area. Fatty acid composition of blubber of Spotted Seals from subsistence harvests near Little Diomede Island, Alaska (USA), differed from ... Other/Unknown Material Arctic cod Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Boreogadus saida Chukchi Chukchi Sea Diomede Island Erignathus barbatus Kamchatka Odobenus rosmarus Phoca hispida Theragra chalcogramma Alaska seehund walrus* Zenodo |
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15. Spotted Seal Phoca largha French: Phoque tacheté / German: Largha-Seehund / Spanish: Foca manchada Other common names: Largha Seal Taxonomy. Phoca largha Pallas, 1811, quam quod observetur tantum ad orientale littus Camtschatcae” (= Eastern coast of Kamchatka, Russia). This species is monotypic. Distribution. N Pacific Ocean, from the Yellow and Bohai seas in N China N through Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, and Chukchi Sea to W Beaufort Sea and Alaska. Descriptive notes. Total length 161-176 cm (males) and 151-169 cm (females); weight 85-110 kg (males) and 65-115 kg (females). Newborns are 77-92 cm in length and weigh 7-12 kg. Spotted Seals are medium-sized, with a variable pelage that ranges dorsally from a dark gray to silver or tan background and slightly lighter ventrally, with dark splotches and spots scattered over the body. Newborns have a thick woolly creamy lanugo (fine, soft hair) that is molted near or just after weaning at c.3—4 weeks of age. Habitat. Particularly in areas of seasonal pack ice, with a pelagic distribution in winter and spring and a different coastal and pelagic distribution during ice-free months. For example, south of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska,in late winter, Spotted Seals avoided large ice floes (more than 48 m in diameter) and preferred small ice floes (less than 20 m in diameter) ice floes. In contrast, sympatric Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida) and Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) preferred large ice floes, and Bearded Seals (Erignathus barbatus) preferred areas between large and small ice floes. Food and Feeding. Spotted Seals have a diverse diet of crustaceans, cephalopods, and fish, including walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), Arctic cod (primarily Boreogadus saida), sand lance (Ammodytidae), capelin (Mallotus villosus), saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis), Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), flounders, and salmon, depending on area. Fatty acid composition of blubber of Spotted Seals from subsistence harvests near Little Diomede Island, Alaska (USA), differed from ... |
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Arctic cod Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Boreogadus saida Chukchi Chukchi Sea Diomede Island Erignathus barbatus Kamchatka Odobenus rosmarus Phoca hispida Theragra chalcogramma Alaska seehund walrus* |
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Arctic cod Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Boreogadus saida Chukchi Chukchi Sea Diomede Island Erignathus barbatus Kamchatka Odobenus rosmarus Phoca hispida Theragra chalcogramma Alaska seehund walrus* |
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