WoRMS name details
original description
(of Phoca tropicalis J.E. Gray, 1850) Gray, J. E. (1850). Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, part two [only]: Seals. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12913 [details]
basis of record
Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
From other sources
IUCN Red List Category extinct since 1952 [details]
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West Indian monk sealCaribbean monk seal |
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