Baikal Seal
Pusa sibirica
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The Baikal seal, also known as Lake Baikal seal or nerpa, is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. The Baikal seal is one of the smallest earless/true seals, and one of the few exclusively freshwater pinniped species. The related Caspian seal inhabits another lake, albeit being saltwater, the Caspian Sea. Both species are closely related to the ringed seal, which inhabits the Arctic Ocean.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Phocidae
- Genus
- Pusa