Phoca vitulina Common Seal, Harbor Seal

Phoca vitulina is commonly referred to as Common Seal, Harbor Seal. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

7567 

AphiaID:

137084 

Scientific:

Phoca vitulina 

German:

Seehund 

English:

Common Seal, Harbor Seal 

Category:

Mammals 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Mammalia (Class) > Carnivora (Order) > Phocidae (Family) > Phoca (Genus) > vitulina (Species) 

Initial determination:

Linnaeus, 1758 

Occurrence:

Russland, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Alaska East Coast USA, Aleutian Islands, Arctic (North Polar Sea), Canada Eastern Pacific, European Coasts, Greenland, Gulf of California, Iceland, Japan, Labrador Península, Lofoten Islands, Mexico (East Pacific), Newfoundland, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spitsbergen /Svalbard, the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, the Isle of Man, USA 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

1 - 50 Meter 

Habitats:

Sandbanks, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

66.93" - 74.8" (170cm - 190cm) 

Temperature:

28.4 °F - 82.4 °F (-2°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Herring, Predatory, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sepia 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country)) 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Phoca largha
  Largha-Robbe, Große Robbe
• 
  Phoca vitulina
  Seehund

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2014-09-24 16:17:49 

Last edit:

2026-06-26 14:29:47 

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