File:Pusa_hispida_hispida_NOAA_1.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
The ringed seal (*Pusa hispida*) is a marine mammal belonging to the family Phocidae within the order Carnivora. It is classified as a species under the genus *Pusa* and is also referred to by the synonyms *Pusa hispida botnica* and the common names Foca Ocelada, Phoque annelé, and Fjord Seal. The taxon was originally described by Schreber in 1775 and is currently accepted as a valid species.
The IUCN Red List assessed the ringed seal as Least Concern in 2016, although its regional conservation status is listed as Near Threatened. The species has a gestation period of 10.75. It is included in the focus list of the WikiProject Climate change.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, WoRMS, IUCN Red List, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
Least Concernringed seal
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCarnivora
- FamilyPhocidae
Maximum longevity: 46 years (captivity) Observations: With a 3.5 months period of delayed implantation, the total gestation lasts 11 months (Ronald Nowak 2003). In the wild, these animals have been reported to live up to 46 years (Bernhard Grzimek 1990), which is plausible. Little is known about their longevity in captivity, but one wild born specimen was about 14.4 years old when it died in captivity (Richard Weigl 2005).
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
Show 11 more facts
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Pusa hispida
- taxon name
- Pusa hispida
- Commons gallery
- Pusa hispida
- taxon synonym
- Pusa hispida botnica
- gestation period
- 10.75
- taxon common name
- кольчатая нерпа
- short name
- P. hispida
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- regional conservation status
- Near Threatened
via Wikidata · CC0
~20 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is a small earless seal species found in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Its common name is derived from a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light gray rings.
The ringed seal is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the Northern Hemisphere; they can be found throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland. Two freshwater subspecies live in northern Europe. They are the smallest members of the seal family found in these regions, averaging 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ringed Seal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.