Harp Seal

Phoca groenlandica (Fabricius)

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Length: 5 feet.
Description: Build more slender, as in the last. Colour of adult male white or yellowish-white, with face black and a curved black band on each side, meeting over the shoulders and again above the tail. Female and young variously mottled. First toe of forefoot (flipper) not longer than the second.
Range: Arctic seas to northern Atlantic and Pacific.
Length: 7 feet.
Description: Gray above, darker along the middle of the back, often more or less mottled. Young in the wooly stage gray. The fact that the middle toes are the longest materially alters the shape of the “flipper,” and this fact, together with the large size, will serve to readily identify this species.
Range: Arctic seas to north Atlantic and Pacific, south to New-foundland.

Bearded Seal

Erignathus barbatus (Fabricius)