Phoca vitulina - #1304
Harbor Seal
Immature individual, on platform by pool
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 Location
Seward, AK, USA
Photographer
B J Bergstrom