Pusa hispida - #5176
Ringed Seal
Pusa hispida botnica
Geographic Distribution
Arctic Ocean and coastal regions of Açôres (vagrant), Canada (Nettilling Lake, Baffin Isl), China (vagrant: Jiangsu), Estonia, Finland (Saimaa Lake), Germany (vagrant), Greenland, Japan (Hokkaido, vagrant: Shikoku, Kyushu), Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal (vagrant), Russia (Okhotsk, Bering, and Baltic Seas), Sweden, USA (vagrant: New Jersey, California).
Order/Family
Phocidae
Genus
Pusa
Specific Epithet
hispida
Image Location
Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rostock Zoo
Image Date
July 1984
Photographer
KD Rudloff