Mirounga
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180670 via WoRMS external link
Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing true seals in the genus Mirounga. Both species, the northern elephant seal and the southern elephant seal, were hunted to the brink of extinction for lamp oil by the end of the 19th century, but their numbers have since recovered.W CalCOFI holds 64 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020.R
- 64
- observations
- 64
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:231398")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:231398'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Mirounga angustirostris Northern Elephant Seal64
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Phocidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Alexandre Vong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Mirounga leonina · source
- Photo · Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Elephant seal” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372106097
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗