The Phoca vitulina an aw semply kent as the selch, is a true selch foond alang temperate an Arctic marine coastlines o the Northren Hemisphere.

Selch
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Scientific classification edit
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Clade: Pinnipediformes
Clade: Pinnipedia
Faimily: Phocidae
Genus: Phoca
Species: P. vitulina
Binomial name
Phoca vitulina
Subspeshies

P. vitulina concolor (DeKay, 1842)
P. vitulina mellonae (Doutt, 1942)
P. vitulina richardsi (Gray, 1864)
P. vitulina stejnegeri (J. A. Allen, 1902)
P. vitulina vitulina Linnaeus, 1758

Range o Phoca vitulina

References

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  1. Thompson, D. & Härkönen, T. (2008). "Phoca vitulina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 29 Januar 2009. Cite uses deprecated parameter |last-author-amp= (help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Linnæus, Carl (1758). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I (in Latin) (10th ed.). Holmiæ (Stockholm): Laurentius Salvius. p. 38. Retrieved 23 November 2012.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)