Phoca fasciata Zimmermann, 1783 . Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 3:277.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Kurile Isis .

DISTRIBUTION: Okhotsk, W. Bering, Chukchi and Japan Seas.

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

ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002004002001.