| dbo:abstract
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- Pinnipedia is an infraorder of mammals in the order Carnivora, composed of seals, sea lions, and the walrus. A member of this group is called a pinniped or a seal. They are widespread throughout the ocean and some larger lakes, primarily in colder waters. Pinnipeds range in size from the 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) and 50 kg (110 lb) Baikal seal to the 6 m (20 ft) and 3,700 kg (8,200 lb) male southern elephant seal, which is also the largest member of Carnivora. Several species exhibit sexual dimorphism, such as the southern elephant seal, where the males can be more than three times as long and six times as massive as the females, or the Ross seal, which has females typically larger than the males. Four seal species are estimated to have over one million members, while seven are classified as endangered with population counts as low as 300, and two, the Caribbean monk seal and the Japanese sea lion, went extinct in the 20th century. The 34 extant species of Pinnipedia are split into 22 genera within 3 families: Odobenidae, comprising the walrus; Otariidae, the eared seals, split between the sea lions and fur seals; and Phocidae, the earless or true seals. Odobenidae and Otariidae are combined into the superfamily Otarioidea, with Phocidae in Phocoidea. Extinct species have also been placed into the three extant families, as well as the extinct family Desmatophocidae, though most extinct species have not been categorized into a subfamily. Nearly one hundred extinct Pinnipedia species have been discovered, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed. (en)
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| dbp:habitat
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- Neritic marine, oceanic marine, intertidal marine, and coastal marine (en)
- Inland wetlands, neritic marine, and oceanic marine (en)
- Neritic marine, oceanic marine, intertidal marine, coastal marine, and other (en)
- Inland wetlands (en)
- Neritic marine and oceanic marine (en)
- Neritic marine, oceanic marine, and coastal marine (en)
- Forest, shrubland, neritic marine, oceanic marine, intertidal marine, and coastal marine (en)
- Neritic marine, oceanic marine, and intertidal marine (en)
- Inland wetlands, neritic marine, oceanic marine, intertidal marine, and coastal marine (en)
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| dbp:hunting
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- Eats a wide variety of fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans, as well as penguins (en)
- Primarily eat pelagic fish, demersal fish, and cephalopods (en)
- Primarily eats crabs, shrimp, clams, snails, benthic and demersal fish, and spoon worms (en)
- Preys on fish, crustaceans, and other invertebrates (en)
- Primarily eats cod icefish, as well as Antarctic toothfish, lanternfish, and cephalopods (en)
- Primarily eats bivalve mollusks, as well as other invertebrates, slow-moving fish, and occasionally birds, seals, and other marine mammals (en)
- Eat a wide variety of cephalopods, fish, and birds (en)
- Eats a variety of fish (en)
- Eats a variety of fish and squid (en)
- Eats a variety of invertebrates and small fish (en)
- Eats a wide variety of fish and invertebrates (en)
- Eats cephalopods, fish, and crustaceans (en)
- Eats krill, cephalopods, fish, and penguins (en)
- Eats small squids and a variety of fish (en)
- Eats a variety of epipelagic and vertically migrating mesopelagic fish and squid (en)
- Primarily eat sculpin fish, as well as other fish (en)
- Primarily eats benthic and demersal fish (en)
- Primarily eats lanternfish, cod icefish, and squid (en)
- Primarily eats squid, as well as fish (en)
- Primarily eats squid, as well as fish and krill (en)
- Unknown; believed to be similar to California sea lions (en)
- Eats a variety of fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans (en)
- Primarily eat lanternfish, as well as a narrow range of fish from the Scomberesocidae, Carangidae, Engraulidae, and Bathylagidae families, and cephalopods (en)
- Primarily eats krill, fish, squid, penguins, other seabirds, and juvenile seals (en)
- Eats a wide variety of fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans (en)
- Preys on fish and invertebrates throughout the water column (en)
- Eats benthic fish, pelagic fish, cephalopods, and lobsters (en)
- Eats a variety of fish and cephalopods, as well as northern fur seal, harbor seals, and ringed seals (en)
- Eats a wide variety of benthic fish, pelagic fish, and invertebrates (en)
- Primarily eats Antarctic krill, as well as fish and squid (en)
- Believed to have eaten eels, lobsters, octopus, and coral reef fish (en)
- Eat a wide variety of fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans, and sometimes African penguins and other seabirds (en)
- Primarily eats squid, lanternfish, and other mesopelagic fish (en)
- Eats sardines, as well as lanternfish, deep-sea smelt, and small squid (en)
- Primarily eats lanternfish, cod icefish, and cephalopods, as well as crustaceans and rockhopper penguins (en)
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| rdfs:comment
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- Pinnipedia is an infraorder of mammals in the order Carnivora, composed of seals, sea lions, and the walrus. A member of this group is called a pinniped or a seal. They are widespread throughout the ocean and some larger lakes, primarily in colder waters. Pinnipeds range in size from the 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) and 50 kg (110 lb) Baikal seal to the 6 m (20 ft) and 3,700 kg (8,200 lb) male southern elephant seal, which is also the largest member of Carnivora. Several species exhibit sexual dimorphism, such as the southern elephant seal, where the males can be more than three times as long and six times as massive as the females, or the Ross seal, which has females typically larger than the males. Four seal species are estimated to have over one million members, while seven are classified as endan (en)
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