Mirounga
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).
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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 1 taxon
- sp Mirounga angustirostris Northern Elephant Seal64
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
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()