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Encyclopedia > Fur seal
Fur seals
Cape Fur Seal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Pinnipedia
Family: Otariidae
Subfamily: Arctocephalinae
Gray, 1837
Genera

Callorhinus
Arctocephalus Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Binomial name (Schreber, 1775) Distribution of the Cape Fur Seal, dark blue: breeding colonies; light blue: non-breeding individuals The Cape Fur Seal (also known as the South African Fur Seal and the Australian Fur Seal) is a species of fur seal. ... For other uses, see Scientific classification (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Subclasses & Infraclasses Subclass †Allotheria* Subclass Prototheria Subclass Theria Infraclass †Trituberculata Infraclass Metatheria Infraclass Eutheria Mammals (class Mammalia) are warm-blooded, vertebrate animals characterized by the presence of sweat glands, including those that produce milk, and by the presence of: hair, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a neocortex... Families 17, See classification The diverse order Carnivora (IPA: or ; from Latin carō (stem carn-) flesh, + vorāre to devour) includes over 260 species of placental mammals. ... Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae Pinnipeds (fin-feet, lit. ... John Edward Gray. ... Binomial name Callorhinus ursinus Linnaeus, 1758 The Northern Fur Seal, Callorhinus ursinus, is an eared seal. ... Species Arctocephalus gazella Arctocephalus townsendi Arctocephalus philippii Arctocephalus galapagoensis Arctocephalus pusillus Arctocephalus forsteri Arctocephalus tropicalis Arctocephalus australis The genus Arctocephalus consists of eight of the nine species of fur seal. ...

Fur seals, or Arctocephalinae make up one of the two distinct groups of marine mammals called "seals". Fur seals are usually smaller than sea lions and have a coat of dense fur intermixed with guard hairs.[1] The guard hairs are molted once a year. They gather in large herds at mating time, when the males will aggressively defend their territories and harems. The fur seals possess bare rear flippers with small claws. They display sexual dimorphism, as the males are often more than five times heavier than the females.[2] Subclasses & Infraclasses Subclass †Allotheria* Subclass Prototheria Subclass Theria Infraclass †Trituberculata Infraclass Metatheria Infraclass Eutheria Mammals (class Mammalia) are warm-blooded, vertebrate animals characterized by the presence of sweat glands, including those that produce milk, and by the presence of: hair, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a neocortex... In birds, moulting or molting is the routine shedding of old feathers. ... A flipper is a digitless, typically flat limb evolved for movement through water. ... Female (left) and male Common Pheasant, illustrating the dramatic difference in both color and size, between the sexes Sexual dimorphism is the systematic difference in form between individuals of different sex in the same species. ...


Both the fur seals and the true seals are members of the Pinnipedia, which is a suborder of the order Carnivora[3]. However, the fur seals, like their close relatives the sea lions, retain some ability to walk on land as their hind limbs can be brought forward under the body to bear the animal's weight, and retain small but visible external ears. Genera Monachus (Monk Seals) Mirounga (Elephant Seal) Lobodon (Crabeater Seals) Leptonychotes Hydrurga (Leopard Seals) Ommatophoca Erignathus (Bearded Seals) Phoca Halichoerus (Gray Seals) Cystophora (Hooded Seals) The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal suborder, Pinnipedia. ... subfamilies Otariidae Phocidae Odobenidae Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipedia, a family (sometimes a suborder or superfamily, depending on the classification scheme) of the order Carnivora. ... In scientific classification used in biology, the order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). ... Families 17, See classification The diverse order Carnivora (IPA: or ; from Latin carō (stem carn-) flesh, + vorāre to devour) includes over 260 species of placental mammals. ... For other uses, see Sea Lion (disambiguation). ...


The fur seals plus the sea lions as a group, make up the family Otariidae, and are called eared seals or walking seals to distinguish them from the earless true seals of the family Phocidae. The fur seals alone make up the Arctocephalinae subfamily. [4] The hierarchy of scientific classification In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. ... Genera Arctocephalus Callorhinus Eumetopias Neophoca Otaria Phocarctos Zalophus The eared seals (or walking seals), family Otariidae, are the fur seals and the sea lions. ... Genera Monachus (Monk Seals) Mirounga (Elephant Seal) Lobodon (Crabeater Seals) Leptonychotes Hydrurga (Leopard Seals) Ommatophoca Erignathus (Bearded Seals) Phoca Halichoerus (Gray Seals) Cystophora (Hooded Seals) The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal suborder, Pinnipedia. ... Genera Monachus (Monk Seals) Mirounga (Elephant Seal) Lobodon (Crabeater Seals) Leptonychotes Hydrurga (Leopard Seals) Ommatophoca Erignathus (Bearded Seals) Phoca Halichoerus (Gray Seals) Cystophora (Hooded Seals) The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal suborder, Pinnipedia. ...

fur seals are related to bears subfamilies Otariidae Phocidae Odobenidae Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipedia, a family (sometimes a suborder or superfamily, depending on the classification scheme) of the order Carnivora. ... Binomial name Callorhinus ursinus Linnaeus, 1758 Range map The Northern Fur Seal, Callorhinus ursinus, is an eared seal. ... Binomial name Peters, 1875 The Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of seven seals in the genus Arctocephalus. ... Binomial name Merriam, 1897 Dark blue: breeding colonies; light blue: other colonies. ... Binomial name Arctocephalus philippii Peters, 1866 The Juan Fernandez Fur Seal (Arctocephalus philippii) is a fur seal that breeds on the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile. ... Binomial name Arctocephalus galapagoensis Heller, 1904 The Galapagos Fur Seal is the smallest of all the pinnipeds. ... Binomial name (Schreber, 1775) Distribution of the Cape Fur Seal, dark blue: breeding colonies; light blue: non-breeding individuals The Cape Fur Seal (also known as the South African Fur Seal and the Australian Fur Seal) is a species of fur seal. ... Binomial name Arctocephalus fosteri Lesson, 1828 The New Zealand (or Southern) Fur Seal (Arctocephalus fosteri, Maori name kokono) is a species of fur seal found around the south coast of Australia, the coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and some of the small islands to the south and... Binomial name Arcetocephalus tropcalis , The Subantarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) is a fur seal found in the southern parts of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. ... Binomial name Arcetocephalus australis Zimmermann, 1783 The South American Fur Seal (Arcetocephalus australis) is a species of fur seal that breeds on the coasts of Chile and Argentina. ...

Genera Monachus (Monk Seals) Mirounga (Elephant Seal) Lobodon (Crabeater Seals) Leptonychotes Hydrurga (Leopard Seals) Ommatophoca Erignathus (Bearded Seals) Phoca Halichoerus (Gray Seals) Cystophora (Hooded Seals) The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal suborder, Pinnipedia. ... Binomial name Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Walruses are large semi-aquatic mammals that live in the cold Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. ...

See also

  1. ^ http://www.sarkanniemi.fi/akatemiat/eng_seals_1.html
  2. ^ http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/NMML/education/Pinnipeds/furseals.htm
  3. ^ http://www.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/109112.htm
  4. ^ http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_name=Arctocephalinae


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Fur seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (164 words)
Both the fur seals and the true seals are members of the Pinnipedia, which is usually regarded as a suborder of the order Carnivora but sometimes as an independent order.
However, the fur seals, like their close relatives the sea lions, retain some ability to walk on land as their hind limbs can be brought forward under the body to bear the animal's weight, and retain small but visible external ears.
The fur seals and the sea lions as a group make up the family Otariidae, and are called eared seals or walking seals to distinguish them from the earless true seals of the family Phocidae.
The S.A. Fur Seal (879 words)
The South African fur seal's range is restricted to islands and the mainland coast between the rich fishing grounds of northern Namibia and Algoa Bay on the south-eastern coast of South Africa.
Fur seals are so-named for their thick pelt, unlike true seals which have only a thin covering of hair.
In southern Africa fur seal harvesting is one of the oldest of all commercial `fisheries'.
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