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LC 700,000–1,000,000 . Guadalupe fur seal Arctocephalus townsendi (Merriam, 1897) Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Juan Fernández fur seal Arctocephalus philippii (Peters, 1866) Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Galápagos fur seal Arctocephalus galapagoensis (Heller, 1904) Galápagos Islands
Female: 136–171 cm (54–67 in) long; 41–113 kg (90–249 lb) [8] Habitat: Neritic marine, oceanic marine, intertidal marine, and coastal marine [8] Diet: A wide variety of fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans, and sometimes African penguins and other seabirds [8] LC 1,060,000 [8] Galápagos fur seal. A. galapagoensis Heller, 1904: Galápagos ...
The subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) is a species of arctocephaline found in the southern parts of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. [3] It was first described by Gray in 1872 from a specimen recovered in northern Australia—hence the inappropriate specific name tropicalis .
Fur seal ranges. Fur seals and sea lions make up the family Otariidae. Along with the Phocidae and Odobenidae, ottariids are pinnipeds descending from a common ancestor most closely related to modern bears (as hinted by the subfamily Arctocephalinae, meaning "bear-headed").
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Brown fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus LC (ssp. pusillus - Cape fur seal NE, ssp. doriferus - Australian fur seal NE) South American fur seal, Arctophoca australis LC ...
Anatomical information for the southern fur seals, Arctocephalus spp., is scant. [8] In addition, little is known about the foraging ecology of South American fur seals. Recent tracking studies reveal that South American fur seals breeding at the Falkland Islands use a vast area of the Patagonian Shelf.
The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae.Despite what its name suggests, the Antarctic fur seal is mostly distributed in Subantarctic islands [3] and its scientific name is thought to have come from the German vessel SMS Gazelle, which was the first to collect specimens of this ...