Hydrurga leptonyx - #284
Leopard Seal
Skull, showing incisors and canines
Geographic Distribution
Circumpolar pack-ice zone south to the shores of Antarctica. Also coastal regions of Australia, Chile, Falkland Isls, Kerguelen Isls, New Zealand), South Sandwich Isls, South Africa.
Order/Family
Phocidae
Genus
Hydrurga
Specific Epithet
leptonyx
Image Date
1972
Photographer
C M Drabek