Baikal seal: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Baikal seal lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Pusa sibirica
Group	Seals, sea lions & walrus
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Europe
Mass	3.25 kg (birth weight); 90 kg (adult weight)
Class	Mammal
Order	Carnivora
Family	Phocidae

Where does the Baikal seal live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Baikal seal in 1 country or territory across Europe.

Russia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a Baikal seal?

Wikidata records the following for the Baikal seal: mass 3.25 kg (birth weight); 90 kg (adult weight).

Is the Baikal seal endangered?

The Baikal seal’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Baikal seal?

The Baikal seal (Pusa sibirica) is a mammal in the order Carnivora and the family Phocidae, genus Pusa. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Baikal seal

The Baikal seal (Pusa sibirica), also known as Lake Baikal seal or nerpa (нерпа), 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.

A subpopulation of inland harbour seals living in the Hudson Bay region of Quebec, Canada (the Lacs des Loups Marins harbour seals), as well as the Saimaa ringed seal and the Ladoga seal (both ringed seal subspecies), are also found in fresh water, but these seals are part of species that also have marine populations, instead of being distinct species.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Baikal seal (revision 1360413281), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q4535 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).