Brown Fur Seal

base stats

• NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
• worldwide 9,356iNaturalist observations
• threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

• ✈️No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
• 🌍9,356 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
• 📜Scientifically named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1775 (251 years ago).

fact sheet

English

Brown Fur Seal

Nederlands

Zuid-Afrikaanse Zeebeer

scientific name

Arctocephalus pusillus

class

Mammalia

order

Carnivora

family

Otariidae

IUCN Red List

LC · least concern

sightings in NL

0

sightings worldwide

9,356

GBIF records in NL

27

weight

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length

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lifespan

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named

1775 by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.