Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38.

TYPE LOCALITY: "intra Zonam arcticam Europae, Asiae, Americae".

DISTRIBUTION: Arctic seas: south as far as New England (USA), Great Britain, Scandinavia, Pribilof Isis, and Honshu (Japan) at least occasionally.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Canada); IUCN - Insufficiently known as O. r. laptevi.

SYNONYMS: arcticus Pallas, 1811; cookii Fremerij, 1831; divergens liliger, 1815; obesus liliger, 1815; orientalis Dybowski, 1922.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Fay (1985, Mammalian Species, 238).