Image of elephant seal
Description:
Observer: Penry Gwenith
Date of record: 2012-11-08
Province: Western Cape
Species name: Mirounga leonina
Common name: Southern Elephant Seal -- Southern Elephant Seal
Family: Phocidae
Record status: ACCEPTED.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes
- Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes)
- Tetrapoda (terrestrial vertebrates)
- Amniota (amniotes)
- Synapsida (synapsids)
- Therapsida (therapsid)
- Cynodontia (cynodonts)
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Theria (Therians)
- Eutheria (eutherian)
- Placentalia (placental)
- Boreoeutheria
- Laurasiatheria
- Scrotifera
- Carnivora (carnivores)
- Caniformia
- Pinnipedia (pinniped)
- Phocidae (earless seals)
- Mirounga (elephant seal)
- Mirounga leonina (South Atlantic Elephant-seal)
- Reptiliomorpha
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- Animal Demography Unit 2019. Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town
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- Penry Gwenith
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