🦭Ringed Seal
The ringed seal is a small earless seal species found in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Its common name is derived from a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light gray rings.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 88 kg
- Body length
- 1.22 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 46 years
Everything we know about the Ringed Seal
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass88 kgrecord 110 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 90 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.22 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.65 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass239 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan46 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 46 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length19 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity6.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation251 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 251 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.95 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l88 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 Ringed Seal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyPhocidae
- ›genusPusa
- ›speciesPusa hispida
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyPhocidae
- genusPusa
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyPhocidae
- genusPusa
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