Juan Fernández Fur Seal

Juan Fernández Fur Seal

Taxobox
name = Juan Fernández Fur Seal
status = VU
trend = unknown
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
subordo = Pinnipedia
familia = Otariidae
subfamilia = Arctocephalinae
genus = "Arctocephalus"
species = "A. philippii"
binomial = "Arctocephalus philippii"
binomial_authority = Peters, 1866

The Juan Fernández Fur Seal ("Arctocephalus philippii") is a fur seal that breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile. It is the second smallest of the pinnipeds (the closely-related Galapagos Fur Seal is smaller still). Discovered by navigator Juan Fernández in the sixteenth century, the seals became a target for sealers in the seventeenth. They were thought extinct mid-way through the twentieth century until a population of 200 was found. The population was protected and has grown quickly. There are now believed to be at least 10,000 animals on and around the island.

References

* Listed as Vulnerable (VU D2 v2.3)
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External links

*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Arctocephalus_philippii/ images and movies of the Juan Fernández Fur Seal "(Arctocephalus philippii)"]


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