Callorhinus ursinus
Description
Callorhinus ursinus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Northern Fur Seal
Phoca ursina Linnaeus, 1758 p.37; Type locality- Bering Island.
Callorhinus curilensis Jordan and Clark in Jordan et al., 1899 p.3; Type locality- Kuriles.
Otoes ursinus : Kuroda, 1938 p.22.
C. ursinus: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.322; Won, 1958 p.436; Won, 1967 p.94; Won, 1968 p.331; Won & Smith, 1999 p.29; Kim 2004 p.190.
C. ursinus curilensis: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.322.
Range: The long migratory route for C. ursinus courses mostly along the eastern coast and sometimes the southern shore of the Korean Peninsula (Fig. 60). This species frequently occurs on Dok-Island. Often, fishermen incidentally catch northern fur seals in the East Sea during winter.
Remarks: Marine biologists have long recognized the monotypy of Callorhinus ursinus. Mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite data identified a weak population structure across the extensive range of this taxon (Dickerson et al. 2010).
Conservation status: North Korea made C. ursinus and their habitat in Uam Ri, Hamgyeongbuk Province a Natural Monument. The Ministry of Environment of South Korea designated C. ursinus as an Endangered Species in 1997. Also, the Ministry of Land, Transports and Maritime Affairs named the northern fur seal a protected marine species in 2007.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Otariidae
- Genus
- Callorhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- ursinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Callorhinus ursinus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Fol. 1. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp. [in Latin]
- Jordan, D. S., Stejneger, L., Lucas, F. A., Moser, J. F., Townsend, C. H., Clark, G. A. & Murray, J. (1899) Fur Seals and Fur-seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, Part 3. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 370 pp.
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Ellerman, J. R. & Morrison-Scott, T. C. S. (1951) Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
- Won, P. H. (1958) A hand list of Korean mammals. Bulletin of Kyung-Hee University, 1, 427 - 460.
- Won, P. H. (1967) Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna and flora of Korea. Fol. 7. Mammals. Ministry of Education, Seoul, 663 pp. [in Korean]
- Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
- Won, C. M. & Smith, K. G. (1999) History and current status of mammals of the Korean Peninsula. Mammal Review, 29, 3 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 2907.1999.00034. x
- Kim, Z. G. (2004) Suborder Pinnipedia & Order Cetacea. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 184 - 254. [in Korean]
- Dickerson, B. R., Ream, R. R., Vignieri, S. N. & Bentzen, P. (2010) Population structure as revealed by mtDNA and microsatellites in northern fur seals, Callorhinus ursinus throughout their range. PLoS One, 5 (5), e 10671. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0010671