Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) English: One of the first pictures of the monk seal colony found by Eugenio Morales Agacino on Ras Nouadhibou, Western Sahara (December 26, 1945).
Español: Una de las primeras fotografías de la colonia de focas monje descubierta por Eugenio Morales Agacino en la península de Cabo Blanco, Sáhara Occidental (26 de diciembre de 1945).
Date 26 December 1945
Source Eugenio Morales Agacino's Photographic Archive. Via Eugenio Morales Agacino's Virtual Exhibition.
Author Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonia_de_focas_monje_de_Cabo_Blanco_(1945).jpg
The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a pinniped belonging to the family Phocidae. Three or four isolated subpopulations are found in the Mediterranean (especially in the Aegean Sea), the archipelago of Madeira and the Cabo Blanco area in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is believed to be the world's rarest pinniped species.
