🦭Caribbean monk seal
La foca monje del Caribe o foca fraile caribeña (Neomonachus tropicalis) es una especie extinta de mamífero pinnípedo de la familia de los fócidos. Propia del mar Caribe, probablemente se extinguió en el siglo XX. Era la única foca que habitaba en aguas netamente tropicales, y el único pinnípedo del mar Caribe. La especie fue clasificada dentro del género Monachus desde 1850, en que fue descrita por primera vez, hasta 2014 cuando estudios moleculares la situaron en el género Neomonachus. Habitaba en zonas costeras, desde la Florida y Puerto Rico hasta el norte de Sudamérica (Colombia y Venezuela), pasando por las Antillas Mayores (Cuba, Haití, Jamaica, República Dominicana), las Antillas Menores (Barbados, Dominica, Antigua y Barbuda), y toda la costa de Centroamérica. Fue vista por última vez en 1952y declarada extinta en 1994 por la UICN.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Monachus tropicalis yet.
- Body mass
- 270 kg
- Body length
- 2.4 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Caribbean monk seal
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass270 kgmaximum recordedSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.4 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l270 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Caribbean monk seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyPhocidae
- ›genusNeomonachus
- ›speciesNeomonachus tropicalis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyPhocidae
- genusNeomonachus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyPhocidae
- genusNeomonachus
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