Spotted Seal
Phoca largha
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 495
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a species of earless seal (or true seal, Phocidae). It inhabits ice floes and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas. It is primarily found along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas and south to the northern Yellow Sea and it migrates south as far as northern Huanghai and the western Sea of Japan.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Spotted seal”.