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

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SpeciesCarnivoraPhocidae
Carnivores

🦭Harp Seal

Pagophilus groenlandicus (Erxleben, 1777)

Гренландский тюлень, или лысун (лат. Pagophilus groenlandicus), — распространённый в Арктике вид морских млекопитающих семейства настоящих тюленей (Phocidae) из парвотряда ластоногих (Pinnipedia). Детёныш гренландского тюленя называется «белёк» (зеленец).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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
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 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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