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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Callorhinus

northern fur seals

WoRMS 254996ITIS 180626key worms:254996
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180626 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Steven Traver · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Callorhinus ursinus

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).

Photograph of Callorhinus
Photo · kqedquest · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Callorhinus is a genus of fur seal. It contains the living northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) as well as the extinct Callorhinus gilmorei and an unnamed species, both from the Pliocene and very beginning of the Pleistocene.W CalCOFI holds 167 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2020.R

167
observations
167
records
1989–2020
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

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:254996")