Lobodon

Six seal species are native to Antarctica crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus);

Antarctic Peninsula 2009

Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli, Ross seal Ommatophoca rossi and crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus are occasionally present on Heard Island (at the extreme northern limit of their pelagic ranges), while subantarctic fur seal A. tropicalis was first recorded on Heard Island in 1987/88.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia 2008

Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddelli) and crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) are very rare vagrants from the south.

MacQuarie Island, Australia 2008

Exactly how this happened is not clear, though canine distemper has also caused die-offs in Antarctic Crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophagus and other pinnipeds.

The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006

Exactly how this happened is not clear, though canine distemper has also caused die-offs in Antarctic Crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophagus and other pinnipeds.

Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006

Six seal species are native to Antarctica: crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus), Ross seal (Omimatophoca rossii), leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii '), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and southern fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella).

Maudlandia Antarctic desert 2008

Muizon (1981) regarded Acrophoca as a lobodontin: that is, a member of the group that includes Hydrurga (the leopard seal), Ommatophoca (Ross’ seal) and Lobodon (the crabeater seal), and specifically as the sister-taxon to Hydrurga.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006