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uhh I felt like I needed to post something to show I'm alive you should totally read what's down here ←_← Extant genera Biology External anatomy Communication Movements Reproduction Growth and maturation Feeding strategy See also References Earless seal Article Talk Read Edit View history Tools Appearance hide Text Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Color (beta) Automatic Light Dark From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Phocides, a genus of butterflies, Pholcidae, a family of spiders, or Phocoenidae, a family of delphinodea. Earless seals[2] Temporal range: Aquitanian–present PreꞒꞒOSDCPTJKPgN Early Miocene – Holocene, possible late Oligocene record[1] Harbor seal, Phoca vitulina Scientific classificationEdit this classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Parvorder: Pinnipedia Superfamily: Phocoidea Family: Phocidae Gray, 1821 Type genus Phoca Linnaeus, 1758 Subfamilies †Devinophocinae Monachinae Phocinae Phocidae distribution The earless seals, also known as phocids or true seals, are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae (/ˈfoʊsɪdiː/). They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from the fur seals and sea lions of the family Otariidae. Seals live in the oceans of both hemispheres and, with the exception of the more tropical monk seals, are mostly confined to polar, subpolar, and temperate climates. The Baikal seal is the only species of exclusively freshwater seal. Taxonomy and evolution Evolution Fossil Pliophoca skull The earliest known fossil earless seal is Noriphoca gaudini from the late Oligocene or earliest Miocene (Aquitanian) of Italy.[1] Other early fossil phocids date from the mid-Miocene, 15 million years ago in the north Atlantic.[1][3] Until recently, many researchers believed that phocids evolved separately from otariids and odobenids; and that they evolved from otter-like animals, such as Potamotherium, which inhabited European freshwater lakes. Recent evidence strongly suggests a monophyletic origin for all pinnipeds from a single ancestor, possibly Enaliarctos, most closely related to the mustelids and bears.[4] Monk seals and elephant seals were previously believed to have first entered the Pacific through the open straits between North and South America,[5] with the Antarctic true seals either using the same route or travelled down the west coast of Africa.[6] It is now thought that the monk seals, elephant seals, and Antarctic seals all evolved in the southern hemisphere, and likely dispersed to their current distributions from more southern latitudes.[7] Taxonomy Pinnipedia Phocidae Phocinae Bearded seal Hooded seal Phocini Ringed seal Baikal seal Caspian seal Spotted seal Harbor seal Grey seal Ribbon seal Harp seal Monachinae Lobodontini Weddell seal Leopard seal Crabeater seal Ross seal Miroungini Southern elephant seal Northern elephant seal (elephant seals) Monachini Mediterranean monk seal Hawaiian monk seal Caribbean monk seal Otariidae (eared seals) Odobenidae (Walrus) Cladogram showing relationships among the phocids, combining several phylogenetic analyses.[8] In the 1980s and 1990s, morphological phylogenetic analysis of the phocids led to new conclusions about the interrelatedness of the various genera. More recent molecular phylogenetic analyses have confirmed the monophyly of the two phocid subfamilies (Phocinae and Monachinae).[9][10][11][5] The Monachinae (
