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Cystophora cristata (Hooded Seal; bladdernose seal)

Synonyms: Cystophora antillarum; Cystophora borealis; Cytophora cristata; Phoca cristata (homotypic); Phoca mitrata
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is a large phocid found only in the central and western North Atlantic, ranging from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west. The seals are typically silver-grey in colour, with black spots that vary in size covering most of the body. Hooded seal pups are known as "blue-backs" because their coats are blue-grey on the back with whitish bellies, though this coat is shed after 14 months of age when the pups molt.
View Wikipedia Record: Cystophora cristata

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Cystophora cristata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
52
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.31
EDGE Score: 4.11
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Attributes

Gestation [3]  8 months
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [5]  35 years
Migration [1]  Interoceanic
Snout to Vent Length [5]  9.217 feet (281 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Weaning [3]  7 days
Adult Weight [2]  507.066 lbs (230.00 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  39.683 lbs (18.00 kg)
Female Weight [2]  352.741 lbs (160.00 kg)
Male Weight [2]  661.39 lbs (300.00 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  87.5 %
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  20 %
Forages - Marine [4]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  5 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Somniosus microcephalus (gray shark)[9]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Cystophora cristata, Kit M. Kovacs and D. M. Lavigne, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 258, pp. –9 (1986)
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Estimated Fish Consumption by Hooded Seals (Cystophora cristata), in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, M. O. Hammill, C. Lydersen, K. M. Kovacs and B. Sjare, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 22: 249–257 (1997)
♦ 8CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 9McMeans, Bailey C., et al. "The role of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) in an Arctic ecosystem: assessed via stable isotopes and fatty acids." Marine Biology 160.5 (2013): 1223+. Academic OneFile. Web. 14 July 2014.
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 11Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0