Back فقمة قيثارية Arabic فقمه جيتاريه ARZ Spedol (Pagophilus groenlandicus) AVK Pagophilus Azerbaijani پاگوپهیلوس AZB Гренландски тюлен Bulgarian Reunig Greunland Breton Foca de Groenlàndia Catalan Pagophilus groenlandicus CEB Tuleň grónský Czech
| 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.