northern fur seal

species of mammal
Taxon taxon Q7966
northern fur seal
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Summary

northern fur seal is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.72% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,658 views/month, #1,407 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Vulnerable[4]
  • Parent taxon: Callorhinus[5]
  • Taxon name: Callorhinus ursinus[6]
  • Commons category: Callorhinus ursinus[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Callorhinus ursinus[8]
  • Commons gallery: Callorhinus ursinus[9]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10]
  • Original combination: Phoca ursina[11]
  • Short name: C. ursinus[12]
  • Taxon common name: Northern fur seal[13], Nördlicher Seebär[14], kotik zwyczajny[15], niedźwiedź morski[16], uchatka niedźwiedziowata[17], callorino dell'Alaska[18], 北海狗[19], osu marín árticu[20], severni morski medved[21]
  • Gestation period: 51 week[22]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[23]
  • Diel cycle: cathemeral[24]

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Identifiers

northern fur seal's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 41757[25]. northern fur seal's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 34884[26]. northern fur seal's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2433487[27]. northern fur seal's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180627[28].

Discovery and Description

Things named for northern fur seal include HSwMS Sjöbjörnen[29], a submarine[30].

Why It Matters

northern fur seal has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include HSwMS Sjöbjörnen[29], a submarine[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [26] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [28] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [27] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . China' s mammalian diversity. wikidata.org.
  21. [20] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [22] ↑ . Grzimeks Enzyklopädie. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i46323
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02080439-n
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  2. 9w ago · Jfpierce · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → Q120446
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  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Iucn conservation status → Vulnerable
    Topic's main category → Category:Callorhinus ursinus
    Parent taxon → Callorhinus
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