Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius 1791)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 596

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scientific name	Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius 1791)
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[Phoca] grypus Fabricius 1791 , Skr. Nat. Selsk. Copenhagen, 1 (2): 167.

Type Locality: Listed by Scheffer (1958) as " Greenland ".

Vernacular Names: Gray Seal.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Halichoerus grypus subsp. grypus Fabricius 1791

Subspecies Halichoerus grypus subsp. macrorhynchus Hornschuch and Schilling 1851

Distribution: Temperate and subarctic waters around Canada (Newfoundland area), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal (vagrant), Russia (Kola Peninsula), Sweden, USA (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey - vagrant).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc), except for Northeast Atlantic subpopulation, which is Endangered.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).