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SpeciesCarnivoraPhocidae
Carnivores

🦭Bearded Seal

Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben, 1777)

La foca barbuda (Erignathus barbatus) es una especie de mamífero pinnípedo de la familia Phocidae. Es de tamaño mediano y habita en el Océano Ártico y en sus proximidades.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
283 kg
Body length
2.65 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
31 years
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Everything we know about the Bearded Seal

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
283 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 373 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
2.65 m
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Brain mass
460 g
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Maximum lifespan
31 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
19 years
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Age at maturity
6.0 years
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Gestation
275 days
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  • 259 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
1
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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixedestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.01 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
283 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bearded Seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🦭 Grey Seal — last shared an ancestor ≈ 6.2 million years ago.
What it eats
insects and other invertebrates60%
fish40%
In other languages
髯海豹 (zh), морской заяц (ru), Remmesæl (da), Bartrobbe (de), Erignathus barbatus (es), partahylje (fi) … and 26 more languages
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