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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Arctocephalus philippii

Juan Fernández fur seal

WoRMS 255006ITIS 180635key worms:255006
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180635 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Arctocephalus philippii
Juan Fernández fur seal2.1 m
a person1.7 m

max · sealifebase

Juan Fernández Fur Seal (Arctocephalus philippii) in Chile
Photo · Flavien Saboureau · CC BY 4.0 · commons

The Juan Fernández fur seal is the second smallest of the fur seals, after the Galápagos fur seal. They are found only on the Pacific Coast of South America, more specifically on the Juan Fernández Islands and the Desventuradas Islands.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.

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:255006")