Arctocephalus philippii
Juan Fernández fur seal
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180635 via WoRMS external link
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
- 2.1 m
- max length
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:255006")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:255006'").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 2.1 m max
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
- ssp Arctocephalus philippii townsendi Guadalupe Fur Seal20
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Arctocephalus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Arctocephalus philippii · source
- Photo · Flavien Saboureau · CC BY 4.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Juan Fernández fur seal” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1349165730
- Length · sealifebase
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 ↗