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 > Genus Pusa

Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

PusaScopoli, 1771accepted genus name

Species group names

Phoca hispida Schreber, 1775 synonym

Children

Phoca hispida botnica Gmelin, 1788
Phoca hispida hispida Schreber, 1775
Phoca hispida ladogensis Nordquist, 1899
Phoca hispida saimensis Nordquist, 1899

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: kleine zeehond; ringelrob; stinkrob
 English: ringed seal sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 Greek: Δακτυλιοφόρος φώκια sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Japanese: ワモンアザラシ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Lithuanian: žieduotasis ruonis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: ringsel; snadd sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Nynorsk: ringsel; snadd sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: foka obrączokwana; nerpa obrączkowana sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: кольчатая нерпа sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Spanish, Castillian: foca anillada; foca ocelada sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: vikare sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Turkish: halkalı fok sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Ukrainian: Кільчаста нерпа

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

Katona, S. K.; Rough, V.; Richardson, D. J. (1983). A field guide to the whales, porpoises and seals of the Gulf of Maine and eastern Canada, Cape Cod to Newfoundland. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1-255.

additional source

Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

ecology source

Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159021

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2010-05-20 by Annalisa Berta

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