| Harp seal | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Phocidae |
| Genus: | Pagophilus Gray, 1844 |
| Species: | P. groenlandicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pagophilus groenlandicus Erxleben, 1777
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| Synonyms | |
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Phoca groenlandica | |
The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. Originally in the genus Phoca with a number of other species, it was reclassified into the monotypic genus Pagophilus in 1844. In Greek, its scientific name translates to "ice-lover from Greenland," and its taxonomic synonym, Phoca groenlandica translates to "Greenlandic seal."[2] This is the only species in the genus Pagophilus.
- ^ Kovacs, K.M. (2015). "Pagophilus groenlandicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T41671A45231087. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T41671A45231087.en. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ^ Perrin, William F.; Würsig, Bernd G.; Thewissen, J. G. M., eds. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press. ISBN 9780123735539. OCLC 316226747.