Phocidae

Also known as earless seal family, true seals, earless seals, phocids

family of mammals

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Phocidae is a family of marine mammals commonly known as seals, which are carnivorous animals that live in oceans and coastal waters around the world. These seals are important members of marine ecosystems and have been of significant interest to humans for hunting, scientific study, and wildlife conservation efforts.

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Species

true seals

Phocidae

FAMILY

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderCarnivora
FamilyPhocidae

Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater

Observations recorded2,545,572

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Research

3,523 papers

Hydrodynamic perception in true seals (Phocidae) and eared seals (Otariidae).ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013Hanke W, Wieskotten S, Marshall C et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00359-012-0778-2
Understanding avian influenza mortality.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Drake JMDOI: 10.1126/science.adx7159
Priapism: a review.ReviewTheriogenology · 2001Rochat MCDOI: 10.1016/s0093-691x(01)00622-7
A phylogeny of the extant Phocidae inferred from complete mitochondrial DNA coding regions.Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2004Davis CS, Delisle I, Stirling I et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.06.006
The occurrence of Mycoplasma phocicerebrale, Mycoplasma phocidae, and Mycoplasma phocirhinis in grey and common seals (Halichoerus grypus and Phoca vitulina) in the United Kingdom.Journal of wildlife diseases · 2011Ayling RD, Bashiruddin S, Davison NJ et al.DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-47.2.471
A quantitative test of the "Ecomorphotype Hypothesis" for fossil true seals (Family Phocidae).PeerJ · 2024Rule JP, Burin G, Park TDOI: 10.7717/peerj.17592
No plastics detected in seal (Phocidae) stomachs harvested in the eastern Canadian Arctic.Marine pollution bulletin · 2020Bourdages MPT, Provencher JF, Sudlovenick E et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110772
Unbreathing seal.Nature plants · 2019Tena GDOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0414-z

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Commons category: Phocidae
taxon name: Phocidae
Commons gallery: Phocidae
Unicode character: 🦭
taxon common name: selfamilien

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Article

The earless seals, also known as phocids or true seals, are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae (/ˈfoʊsɪdiː/). They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from the fur seals and sea lions of the family Otariidae. Seals live in the oceans of both hemispheres and, with the exception of the more tropical monk seals, are mostly confined to polar, subpolar, and temperate climates. The Baikal seal is the only species of exclusively freshwater seal.

Taxonomy and evolution