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Phocidae

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Phocidae

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Also known as earless seal family, true seals, earless seals, phocids

family of mammals

OverviewAI-generated

Phocidae is a family of true seals within the order Carnivora. This taxon belongs to the class Mammalia and the phylum Chordata, with its parent taxon identified as Caniformia. The family is classified under the subclass Pinnipedia. Its scientific name is Phocidae, and it is recognized as an accepted taxon.

The habitat for members of this family includes marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Records from the iDigBio database indicate occurrences in the United States and New Zealand, with institutions such as the USNM holding related records. The family has been the subject of 3,523 PubMed entries and has 2,545,572 occurrence records in GBIF.

Synthesized by Vinony from 41 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, PubMed, Gbif Occ, Encyclopedia of Life, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

true seals

Phocidae

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassMammalia
  4. OrderCarnivora
  5. FamilyPhocidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded2,545,572

海豹科（学名：Phocidae）动物俗称海豹，是食肉目鳍足类的一科，常见的有斑海豹、港海豹、冠海豹等。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
837
With media
37
Family
Phocidae
Collections
USNM
Recorded in
United States, New Zealand
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Research

3,523 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

The earless seals, also known as phocids or true seals, are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae (/ˈfoʊsɪdiː/). They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from the fur seals and sea lions of the family Otariidae. Seals live in the oceans of both hemispheres and, with the exception of the more tropical monk seals, are mostly confined to polar, subpolar, and temperate climates. The Baikal seal is the only species of exclusively freshwater seal.

Taxonomy and evolution

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phocidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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