Caribbean Monk Seal

Monachus tropicalisCollection Georges DeclercqFrom WORMS photogallery

Description: Two young Caribbean monk seals in New York Aquarium. Date: 1910. Source: https://archive.org/stream/zoologica384419101911newy#page/644/mode/2up. Author: Unknown authorUnknown author.

Description: Captive Caribbean monk seal, Monachus tropicalis, of unknown sex at the New York Aquarium in ca. 1910. Specimen originally captured from either Arrecife´s Tria´ngulos (Campeche) or Arrecife Alacra´n (Yucatan) in Mexico (Townsend 1909). Date: 1910. Source: http://www.science.smith.edu/msi/pdf/747_Monachus_tropicalis.pdf and https://archive.org/stream/zoologica384419101911newy#page/644/mode/2up. Author: New York Zoological Society.

Description: The Caribbean monk seal Monachus tropicalis as depicted by Henry W. Elliott in 1884. Date: 1884. Source: http://www.monachus-guardian.org/mguard05/05infocu.htm. Author: Henry W. Elliott.