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 Phoca

Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phoca*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bulgarian: obiknoven tyulen; Обикновен тюлен sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: spættet sæl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone zeehond sources: Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

English: common seal; harbour seal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: phoque veau marin; phoque veau-marin sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Greek: Φώκια των λιμανιών sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Japanese: ゼニガタアザラシ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Lithuanian: paprastasis ruonis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: fjordsel; steinkobbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: fjordsel; steinkobbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

Slovenian: navadni tjulenj sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: foca común; foca moteada sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: knubbsäl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: bayağı fok; liman focu; liman foku sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Звичайний тюлень; Тюлень звичайний sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morlo cyffredin

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
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
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Waring, G.T., J.M. Quintal and C.P. Fairfield (eds.). 2002. U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal dtock assessments, 2002. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS- NE- 169. 318 p.
additional source	Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.
additional source	Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (1993). Mammal species of the world. Smithsonian Institution Press.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
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).