Spotted Seal
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Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae

[Photo] Spotted seal release after tagging. Photo by J.London. Source: www.pmel.noaa.gov/foci/ice07/FOCI_Ice2007_log.html

The Spotted Seal (Phoca largha), also known as the Larga Seal, inhabits the ice and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas. It is primarily found along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas and south to the northern Huanghai Sea and western Sea of Japan.

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