Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Eutheria > Order Carnivora > Suborder Caniformia > Infraorder Pinnipedia > Family Phocidae

Monachus Fleming, 1822

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

German: Mönchsrobbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Φώκιες μοναχοί sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: foca monaca sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: ruoniai vienuoliai sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: munkeseler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: mniszka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: тюлени-монахи sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: fok sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Тюлень-монах

Literature

basis of record	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376