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Phoca vitulina, common seal, harbor seal

small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere

Pagophilus groenlandicus, harp seal

common Arctic seal; the young are all white

elephant seal, sea elephant

either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks

Erignathus barbatus, bearded seal, squareflipper square flipper

medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean

Cystophora cristata, bladdernose, hooded seal

medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters

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seal

any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions