Harp Seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), Greenland Sea IMG 5075🦭

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SpeciesCarnivoraPhocidae
Carnivores

🦭Harp Seal

Pagophilus groenlandicus (Erxleben, 1777)

De zadelrob (Pagophilus groenlandicus, synoniem Phoca groenlandica) is een zeehond, die leeft in het noorden van de Atlantische Oceaan en in de Noordelijke IJszee, rond de Noordpool.

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Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 2.3× your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
141 kg
Body length
1.76 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
42 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Harp Seal

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

Body mass
141 kgrecord 135 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

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

By sex

  • Female120 kgSeaLifeBasev25.04SeaLifeBase populates Weight independently of Length; the two are not guaranteed to describe the same individual. Verify before publishing.

Figures vary

  • 180 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
1.76 m
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Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female1.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04

Figures vary

  • 1.9 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass
302 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Generation length
18 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

Figures vary

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

Figures vary

  • 1.25AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Omnivore
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

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

Volume l
141 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 Harp Seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyPhocidae
  6. ›genusPagophilus
  7. ›speciesPagophilus groenlandicus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderCaniformia
  4. familyPhocidae
All 13 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
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More about the Harp Seal

What it eats
fish60%
insects and other invertebrates40%
In other languages
Lodofoka grenlandzka (pl), 하프물범 (ko), Phoque du Groenland (fr), Pagophilus groenlandicus (es), grönlandi fóka (hu), Pagophilus groenlandicus (it) … and 23 more languages

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