bearded seal

n. A large Arctic seal (Erignathus barbatus) having a gray to brown body with a small head and long whiskers.

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Noun

bearded seal - medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic OceanErignathus barbatus, squareflipper square flipperearless seal, hair seal, true seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippersErignathus, genus Erignathus - bearded seals

Bearded Seal

(Erignathus barbatus), a pinniped of the family Phocidae. It measures 2.2–2.6 m long and weighs 225–360 kg. The pelage is grayish brown, sometimes with a few light spots on the back; the pelage of the newborn is dark. The bearded seal inhabits the arctic regions of the Atlantic Ocean, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the White, Barents, Kara, Chukchi, and Bering seas. It usually lives solitary in shallow waters and reproduces in the spring on drifting ice. It feeds on bottom invertebrates; more rarely, on fish. The bearded seal is a valuable object of commerce.

REFERENCES

Chapskii, K. Morskie zveri Sovetskoi Arktiki. Leningrad-Moscow, 1941.
Mlekopitaiushchie fauny SSSR, vol. 2. Moscow-Leningrad, 1963.
Krylov, V. I., G. A. Fedoseev, and A. P. Shustov. Lastonogie Dal’nego Vostoka. Moscow, 1964.

bearded seal

Related to bearded seal: ringed seal

noun

Synonyms for bearded seal

noun medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle

Synonyms

Erignathus barbatus
squareflipper square flipper

Related Words

earless seal
hair seal
true seal
Erignathus
genus Erignathus

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