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 Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38 . TYPE LOCALITY: Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia . DISTRIBUTION: Kurile Isis.; Kamchatka; south to Kiangsu ( China )(SW); Alaska to Mexico ; Greenland and E. Canada to N.E. U.S.A. ; Iceland ; Britain and Europe; Seal Lakes, Ungava Pen. ( Canada ); Iliamna Lake, Alaska ( U.S.A. ). COMMENT: Includes kurilensis and richardsi; see Shaughnessy and Fay, 1977 , J. Zool. Lond., 182:385-419. ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002004008001 as P. vitulina . 5301413002004005001 as P. kurilensis .