Phoca largha Pallas, 1811

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 332

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scientific name	Phoca largha Pallas, 1811
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Phoca largha Pallas, 1811 View in CoL . Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:113.

TYPE LOCALITY: "quam quod observetur tantum ad orientale littus Camtschatcae", Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) listed as "Eastern coast of Kamchatka " [ Russia].

DISTRIBUTION: Associated with pack ice in coastal N Pacific, Bering and Okhotsk Seas, Aleutian Isis; south to Kiangsu ( China) and Japan.

SYNONYMS: chorisi Lesson, 1828; macrodens Allen, 1902; nummularis Temminck, 1847 ; ochotensis Allen, 1902 ; petersi Mohr, 1941 ; pribilofensis Allen, 1902; tigrina Lesson, 1827 .

COMMENTS: Scheffer (1958) considered largha as conspecific with vitulina ; however, Shaughnessy and Fay (1977) and J. E. King (1983) separated the two.