Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791) . Skr. Nat. Selsk. Copenhagen, 1(2):167.

TYPE LOCALITY: Listed by Scheffer (1958) as " Greenland " .

DISTRIBUTION: Temperate and subarctic waters around Britain, Canada (Newfoundland area), Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Russia (Kola Peninsula), and Baltic Sea.

SYNONYMS: atlantica Nehring, 1886; baltica Nehring, 1886; griseus Nilsson, 1820; halichoerus Thienemann, 1824; macrorhynchus Hornschuch and Schilling, 1851; pachyrhynchus Hornschuch and Schilling, 1851.