Phoca vitulina - #1822
Harbor Seal
Front, quartering view of mounted skeleton
Geographic Distribution
Coastal regions of Canada, China (south to Kiangsu), Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Japan (Hokkaido), Mexico (Baja California, Isla Guadalupe-vagrant), Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia (Kurile Isls and Kamchatka), Sweden, USA (Atlantic coast: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, vagrants: New York, Florida, Vermont. Pacific Coast: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California).
Order/Family
Phocidae
Genus
Phoca
Specific Epithet
vitulina
Image Date
20-Jun-1999
Photographer
DG Huckaby