Phoca

See also: phoca and phóca

Translingual

Phoca vitulina

Etymology

From Latin phoca (“seal”).

Proper noun

Phoca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phocidae – a genus of earless seals; harbor seals.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Caniformia - suborder; Phocidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Phoca largha, Phoca vitulina - species
  • Phoca fasciata, Phoca caspica, Phoca hispida, Phoca sibirica, Phoca groenlandica - species formerly included in Phoca

Derived terms

• Cystophora
• Histriophoca
• Ommatophoca
• †Gryphoca
• †Phocanella
• †Platyphoca

Further reading

• Phoca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phoca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Phoca at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Phoca at AnimalBase
• Phoca at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Phoca in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Phoca at World Register of Marine Species