🦭Crabeater seal
La foca cangrejera (Lobodon carcinophaga) es una especie de mamífero pinnípedo de la familia de los fócidos. Se estima que su población es entre 8 a 15 millones de individuos. Es una de las focas más rápidas ya que puede nadar a unos 25,74 km/h. La foca cangrejera se encuentra en la Antártida desde hace 15 a 25 millones de años, en una época en la que esa región era mucho más cálida que hoy día. También ha sido vista en zonas de América del Sur, Australia y Nueva Zelanda.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 238 kg
- Body length
- 2.42 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 39 years
Everything we know about the Crabeater seal
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass238 kgrecord 300 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 250 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length2.42 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2.6 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass607 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan39 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length15 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity4.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation270 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 259 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.01 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l238 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 Crabeater seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyPhocidae
- ›genusLobodon
- ›speciesLobodon carcinophaga
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyPhocidae
- genusLobodon
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyPhocidae
- genusLobodon
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