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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Arctocephalus

WoRMS 231390ITIS 180628key worms:231390
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180628 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · juan.jeri.vidal · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Arctocephalus australis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Two New Zealand Fur Seals, Arctocephalus forsteri
Photo · Mirko Thiessen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

The genus Arctocephalus consists of the southern fur seals. Arctocephalus translates to "bear head".W CalCOFI holds 20 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1991 and 2019.R

20
observations
20
records
1991–2019
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:231390")