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SpeciesCarnivoraPhocidae
Carnivores

🦭Grey Seal

Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791)

회색물범(Halichoerus grypus)은 북대서양 양쪽 해안에서 발견되는 물범의 일종이다. 물범과에 속하는 대형 기각류이다. 회색물범속(Halichoerus)의 유일종이다. 대서양바다표범으로도 알려져 있다.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2026.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
198 kg
Body length
2.19 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
47 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Grey Seal

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

Body mass
198 kgrecord 310 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female186 kgSeaLifeBasev25.04SeaLifeBase populates Weight independently of Length; the two are not guaranteed to describe the same individual. Verify before publishing.

Figures vary

  • 268 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
2.19 m
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female2 mSeaLifeBasev25.04

Figures vary

  • 2.3 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass
319 g
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
47 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 43 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
14 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
4.8 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
291 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 240 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
198 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Grey Seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyPhocidae
  6. ›genusHalichoerus
  7. ›speciesHalichoerus grypus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyPhocidae
  4. genusHalichoerus
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyPhocidae
  14. genusHalichoerus
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More about the Grey Seal

Closest relative on this site
🦭 Bearded Seal — last shared an ancestor ≈ 6.2 million years ago.
What it eats
fish80%
insects and other invertebrates20%
In other languages
灰海豹 (zh), szarytka morska (pl), Phoque gris (fr), Halichoerus grypus (es), kúpos fóka (hu), Halichoerus grypus (it) … and 25 more languages

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