Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius 1791)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 596

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11345117
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scientific name	Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius 1791)
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Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius 1791) View in CoL

[Phoca] grypus Fabricius 1791 View in CoL , Skr. Nat. Selsk. Copenhagen, 1 (2): 167.

Type Locality: Listed by Scheffer (1958) as " Greenland ".

Vernacular Names: Gray Seal.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Halichoerus grypus subsp. grypus Fabricius 1791

Subspecies Halichoerus grypus subsp. macrorhynchus Hornschuch and Schilling 1851

Distribution: Temperate and subarctic waters around Canada (Newfoundland area), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal (vagrant), Russia (Kola Peninsula), Sweden, USA ( Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey - vagrant).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc), except for Northeast Atlantic subpopulation, which is Endangered.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).