Ringed Seal

Phoca hispida Schreber

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Length: 4 feet.
Description: Similar to the harbour seal, but more slender, with narrower head and longer limbs. Colour variable; often blackish above, darkest on the back, lighter on the sides, with large oval whitish spots, below yellowish-white, sometimes lighter, irregularly mottled with black, sometimes marbled with light dark-centred spots. First toe always longer than the second.
Range: Arctic seas south to the northern Atlantic and Pacific.