Predators & furbearers
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
- Group
- Predators & furbearers
- Size class
- Large (70–300 kg)
- Family
- Phocidae
Range
- Europe
- North America
Habitat
- Coast
Range
Countries it is found in
22 countries
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greenland
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- St. Pierre & Miquelon
- Svalbard & Jan Mayen
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
Range from:ASM Mammal Diversity Database, GBIF occurrence records — read 2026-08-05
Field data
Tracks
A photograph of real sign left by Harbour seal. Prints vary with gait, ground and how long they have been there — treat this as one example, not a template.
Track photo:Garth HarwoodCC BY
Cross-reference
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Its closest relatives in the compendium, nearest kinship first.
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Same subfamily (Phocinae)
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Same subfamily (Phocinae)
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Gray wolf
Canis lupus
Same order (Carnivora)
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Same order (Carnivora)