Northern fur seal

Northern fur seal
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Clade:	Pinnipedia
Family:	Otariidae
Subfamily:	Arctocephalinae
Genus:	Callorhinus
Species:	C. ursinus
Binomial name
	Callorhinus ursinus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
breeding colonies	non-breeding population
Synonyms
	Phoca ursina Linnaeus, 1758

The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is an eared seal found along the north Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk. It is the largest member of the fur seal subfamily (Arctocephalinae) and the only living species in the genus Callorhinus.^[3] A single fossil species, Callorhinus gilmorei, is known from the Pliocene of Japan and western North America.^[4]

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^ Linnæus, Carl (1758). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I (in Latin) (10th ed.). Holmiæ: Laurentius Salvius. p. 37. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
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