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Brown fur seal
Species of carnivore / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), also known as the Cape fur seal, South African fur seal and Australian fur seal, is a species of fur seal.
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Brown fur seal | |
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Hauling-out on the Hippolyte Rocks off the east coast of Tasmania | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Clade: | Pinnipedia |
Family: | Otariidae |
Genus: | Arctocephalus |
Species: | A. pusillus |
Binomial name | |
Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber, 1775) | |
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Distribution of the brown fur seal, dark blue: breeding colonies; light blue: nonbreeding individuals |
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