name: Ringed Seal

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name_scientific: Pusa hispida

description: The ringed seal (Pusa hispida), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely greater than 1.5 m in length, with a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light grey rings, whence its common name. It is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the northern hemisphere: ranging throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe. Ringed seals are one of the primary prey of polar bears and have long been a component of the diet of indigenous people of the Arctic.

itis_id: 622018

wikipedia_id: Ringed seal

picture_file_name: 477.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

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picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:37:35.000Z

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food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Pinnipeds

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:44.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:25.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 9718

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