Phoca hispida Schreber, 1775 . Saugethiere, 3:86.

TYPE LOCALITY: Coasts of Greenland and Labrador (Canada) .

DISTRIBUTION: Arctic Ocean, Okhotsk, Bering, and Baltic Seas; Lakes Saimaa (Finland) and Ladoga (U.S. S.R.); Nettilling Lake, Baffin Isl. (Canada).

COMMENT: Formerly included in Pusa; see Burns and Fay, 1970, J. Zool. Lond., 161:363-394; but also see Corbet, 1978:187.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002004004001.