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Mediterranean Monk Seal
Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Carnivora - carnivores »  family Phocidae - earless seal »  genus Monachus

Scientific synonyms

Phoca monachus Hermann, 1779 o
Monachus albiventer

Type taxon of:Monachus Fleming, 1822 (Phoca monachus Hermann, 1779)

Images

Monachus monachus - Mediterranean Monk Seal

Author: Hana Motyčková

Monachus monachus - Mediterranean Monk Seal

Author: Nayer Youakim

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [13653]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1005920]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Monachus monachus Hermann, 1779]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
EN de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea 2.4 [http://www.faunaeur.org] [as Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)]
Data retrieved on: 9 March 2012
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)]

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