Ringed Seal
Pusa hispida
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 506
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is a small earless seal species found in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Its common name is derived from a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light gray rings. The ringed seal is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the Northern Hemisphere; they can be found throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ringed seal”.