Callorhinus
northern fur seals
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180626 via WoRMS external link
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 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:254996")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:254996'").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 Callorhinus ursinus Northern Fur Seal167
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Otariidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Steven Traver · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Callorhinus ursinus · source
- Photo · kqedquest · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Callorhinus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1353348458
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 ↗