🦭Caspian seal
Le Phoque de la Caspienne (Pusa caspica) est une des plus petites espèces de la famille des phoques. On le trouve exclusivement en mer Caspienne, dont il est endémique. En moyenne il mesure 1,60 mètre, pèse près de 85 kg et vit 35 ans. L’espèce est considérée par l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature comme étant menacée de disparation. Sa population, qui s'élevait à plus d'un million au début du XXe siècle, a chuté à 68 000 selon les estimations de 2020. L'animal a longtemps été victime d'une chasse intensive et est désormais exposé à la pollution industrielle.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 87 kg
- Body length
- 1.56 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 50 years
Everything we know about the Caspian seal
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass87 kgrecord 86 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 86 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length1.56 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female1.4 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Figures vary
- 1.5 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass168 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan50 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length16 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity6.0 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation289 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 330 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 / mixedestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.47 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l87 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Caspian seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyPhocidae
- ›genusPusa
- ›speciesPusa caspica
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyPhocidae
- genusPusa
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyPhocidae
- genusPusa
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