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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - The Sharks of the Monterey Bay - Pelagic Sharks
Otarids and seals to the group called Phocids. Otarids are often referred to as "eared seals" and Phocids as "ear-less seals". Sealions use their fore-flippers to propel themselves through the water and typically travel along the surface, often porpoise'ing. Seals on the ...
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Seal Conservation Society: The Pinnipeds
Phocidae ('true seals'), the Otariidae ('eared seals'), which include the fur seals and sea lions, and the Odobenidae (the walrus). The Otariidae differ from the Phocidae in several ways but perhaps the most noticeable ones are that otariid seals ...
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Sable Island Marine Mammals
All pinnipeds now found on Sable Island are phocids (i.e. seals). The global distribution of seals, sea lions and fur seals ... , seal management is the responsibility of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), and seals are covered in the Marine Mammal Regulations of Canada's Fisheries Act. Another pinniped ...
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The Pinnipeds
Phocidae (true seals), the Otariidae (fur seals and sea lions), and the Odobenidae (walrus). Pinniped Evolution At present there are ... longer than the other two families. The Otariidae Stellers Sea Lions (NMML). Otariid seals are also known as `eared seals` as they do possess two small, clipped looking ears. Their fore flippers are ...
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CRESLI seal page
Otariidae which include fur seals and sea lions, and the Walrus (Odobenidae). The true seals (also called "hair" or "earless" seals), and the sea lions and fur seals (also called eared seals) are thought to ... have reported seeing seals over 70 miles off long Island's shores. EARED SEALS (Otariidae) Not native to Long Island Sea lions and fur seals are quite different from true seals. Their long ...
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Marine Vertebrates - MarineBio.org
Eared seal family. These animals have large flippers in the front, tiny ear lobes and webbed back legs that can rotate around. For this reason, Eared seals are capable of moving quite easily when in water or on land. With no ears, short flippers and no rotation of the back flippers, True seals are easily distinguishable from the Eared seals ...
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The Marine Mammal Center
Program Marine Mammal Info Classification Pinnipeds Harbor Seals Nothern Elephant Seals California Sea Lions Steller Sea Lions Northern Fur Seals Guadalupe Fur Seals Sea Otters Cetaceans Toothed Whales Dolphins & Porpoises ... " tags applied to the animals' flippers. We tag phocids (true seals) on the rear flippers, and otariids (eared seals) on the front flippers. Generally, males are tagged on the ...
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Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Three families of living pinnipeds are recognized: Phocidae (earless seals or true seals) Otaridae (eared or fur seals and sea lions) Odobenidae (walrus) Status of Pinniped Species All pinnipeds ... use blubber for insulation. Otariids, including fur seals and sea lions, have external ear flaps (hence the name "eared seals"). Sea lions and fur seals can rotate their hind feet forward ...
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seals
Seals belong to the order Pinnipedia, which means "flap-footed", and refers to their webbed limbs. Within this order there are three different families: Phocidae - the true, or eared seals; Otaridae - fur seals ... seals find it difficult to move about quickly. True seals lack external earflaps - one of the distinguishing features that separate true seals from the sea lions and fur seals. All seals ...
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Seal Conservation Society: Species Index Page
The Phocidae or 'True' Seals The Northern Seals Hooded Seal Cystophora cristata Bearded Seal Erignathus barbatus Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus ... EXTINCT Hawaiian Monk Seal Monachus schauinslandi Ross Seal Ommatophoca rossii The Otariidae or 'Eared' Seals The Sea Lions Steller Sea Lion Eumetopias jubatus Australian Sea Lion Neophoca cinerea ...
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