hair seal

1. Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers (synset 102082041)
   is a type of: seal - any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions
   subtypes:

   • common seal, harbor seal, phoca vitulina - small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere
   • harp seal, pagophilus groenlandicus - common Arctic seal; the young are all white
   • elephant seal, sea elephant - either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
   • bearded seal, erignathus barbatus, squareflipper square flipper - medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean
   • bladdernose, cystophora cristata, hooded seal - medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters
   belongs to: family phocidae, phocidae - earless seals
   same as: earless seal, true seal

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