Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Leptonychotes weddelli (Lesson, 1826) . Bull. Sei. Nat. Geol., 7:437 . TYPE LOCALITY: South Orkney Isl. (Br. Antarct. Trust Terr.) . DISTRIBUTION: Coastal areas of Antarctic continent. Occasionally north to South America, Australia , and New Zealand . COMMENT: Reviewed by Stirling , 1971 , Mamm. Species, 6:1 -5, and Kooyman, 1981 , Weddell seal: Consummate diver. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, x + 135 pp. ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002006001001.