northern fur seal

See also: northern fur-seal

English

northern fur seal

Alternative forms

• northern fur-seal

Noun

northern fur seal (plural northern fur seals)

1. A fur seal of the species Callorhinus ursinus (formerly Arctocephalus ursinus), of the northern Pacific.
   • 1859, John Edward Gray, “On the Sea-Bear of Foster, the Ursus marinus of Steller, Arctocephalus ursinus of Authors”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 103:

     Arctocephalus ursinus. Northern Fur-Seal. Adult male grey-black; hair of the back long, black, reddish, with a subterminal band and a short grey tip; under fur short, wolly, red; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a kind of mane; lips and nose reddish; whiskers very long, strong, white, smooth, tapering to a fine point.

Translations

Callorhinus ursinus

• Afrikaans: seebeer
• Aleut: lakuq
• Catalan: os marí septentrional (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北海狗 (bak¹ hoi² gau²), 北方海狗 (bak¹ fong¹ hoi² gau²)

  Mandarin: 北海狗 (zh) (běihǎigǒu), 北方海狗 (běifāng hǎigǒu)

• Finnish: pohjanmerikarhu
• French: ours de mer m
• German: Nördlicher Seebär m
• Hungarian: északi medvefóka
• Italian: callorino dell'Alaska m
• Japanese: キタオットセイ (kitaottosei), オットセイ (ja) (ottosei)
• Korean: 바다말 (badamal), 북방물개 (bukbangmulgae)
• Lushootseed: c'ayə
• Russian: се́верный морско́й ко́тик m (sévernyj morskój kótik), морско́й кот (ru) m (morskój kot)
• Saanich: t̕θayə
• Spanish: oso marino ártico m
• Tlingit: x̱'ún
• Tsimshian: k'oon
• Yupik:

  Central Siberian: please add this translation if you can

  Central Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can

• Yurok: chkweges

Further reading

• northern fur seal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Callorhinus ursinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Callorhinus ursinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons