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Leopard seal, the Glossary

The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), also referred to as the sea leopard, is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the southern elephant seal).^[1]

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Extant Zanclean first appearances
Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Lobodontins
Mammals described in 1820
Pinnipeds of Antarctica
Pinnipeds of Australia
Pinnipeds of South America
Pliocene pinnipeds

Adélie penguin

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is the only place where it is found.

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Antarctic

The Antarctic (or, American English also or; commonly) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.

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The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae. Leopard seal and Antarctic fur seal are Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, least concern biota of Oceania, least concern biota of South America, mammals of Chile, pinnipeds of Antarctica, pinnipeds of Australia and pinnipeds of South America.

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Antarctic krill

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean.

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Antarctic Sound

The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Auricle (anatomy)

The auricle or auricula is the visible part of the ear that is outside the head.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian ghostshark

The Australian ghostshark (Callorhinchus milii) is a cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) belonging to the subclass Holocephali (chimaera).

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute.

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Brown Bluff

Brown Bluff is a basalt tuya on the Tabarin Peninsula of northern Antarctica.

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Canine tooth

In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, eye teeth, vampire teeth, or vampire fangs, are the relatively long, pointed teeth.

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Cape petrel

The Cape petrel (Daption capense), also called the Cape pigeon, pintado petrel, or Cape fulmar, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. Leopard seal and cape petrel are Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

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Cephalopod

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες,; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.

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Cetacea

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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Chimaera

Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, rat fish, spookfish, or rabbit fish; the last three names are not to be confused with rattails, Opisthoproctidae, or Siganidae, respectively.

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Chinstrap penguin

The chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) is a species of penguin that inhabits a variety of islands and shores in the Southern Pacific and the Antarctic Oceans.

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Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.

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Countershading

Countershading, or Thayer's law, is a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the top or upper side and lighter on the underside of the body.

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Crabeater seal

The crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), also known as the krill-eater seal, is a true seal with a circumpolar distribution around the coast of Antarctica. Leopard seal and crabeater seal are least concern biota of Oceania, least concern biota of South America, lobodontins, mammals of South Australia, pinnipeds of Antarctica, pinnipeds of Australia and pinnipeds of South America.

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Crampons

A crampon is a traction device attached to footwear to improve mobility on snow and ice during ice climbing.

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Diving petrel

The diving petrels form a genus, Pelecanoides, of seabirds in the family Procellariidae.

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Drift ice

Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011.

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Dunedin

Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region.

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Eared seal

An eared seal, otariid, or otary is any member of the marine mammal family Otariidae, one of three groupings of pinnipeds.

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Emperor penguin

The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Frank Wild

John Robert Francis Wild (18 April 1873 – 19 August 1939) was an English sailor and explorer.

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Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.

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Gentoo penguin

The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is a penguin species (or possibly a species complex) in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus). Leopard seal and gentoo penguin are Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geraldton

Geraldton (Wajarri: Jambinu, Wilunyu: Jambinbirri) is a coastal city in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth.

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Hans Thewissen

Johannes Gerardus Marie (Hans) Thewissen is a Dutch-American paleontologist known for his significant contributions to the field of whale evolution.

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Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist.

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Hydrolagus

Hydrolagus is a genus of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel

Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel (11 August 1809 – 9 March 1873) was a German naturalist.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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King penguin

The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin. Leopard seal and king penguin are Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

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Krill

Krill (Euphausiids), (krill) are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, found in all the world's oceans.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.

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Lobodontini

The true seal tribe Lobodontini, collectively known as the Antarctic seals or lobodontin seals, consist of four species of seals in four genera: the crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), the leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddelli), and the Ross seal (Ommatophoca rossii). Leopard seal and lobodontini are lobodontins.

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Molar (tooth)

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Orca

The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.

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Pagophily

Pagophily or pagophilia is the preference or dependence on water ice for some or all activities and functions.

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Paul Nicklen

Paul Nicklen (born July 21, 1968) is a Canadian photographer, film-maker, author and marine biologist.

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Penguin

Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.

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Petrel

Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.

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Pinniped

Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Pontoon boat

A pleasure boat with two lengthwise pontoons A pontoon boat is a flattish boat that relies on floats to remain buoyant.

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Rigid inflatable boat

A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull bottom joined to side-forming air tubes that are inflated with air to a high pressure so as to give the sides resilient rigidity along the boat's topsides.

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Rockhopper penguin

The rockhopper penguins are three closely related taxa of crested penguins that have been traditionally treated as a single species and are sometimes split into three species.

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Ross seal

The Ross seal (Ommatophoca rossii) is a true seal (family Phocidae) with a range confined entirely to the pack ice of Antarctica. Leopard seal and ross seal are lobodontins, mammals of South Australia and pinnipeds of Antarctica.

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Rothera Research Station

The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) base on the Antarctic Peninsula, located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island.

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Simon's Town

Simon's Town (Simonstad), sometimes spelled Simonstown, is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa and is home to Naval Base Simon's Town, the South African Navy's largest base.

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Snorkeling

Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.

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South Georgia

South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Southern elephant seal

The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is one of two species of elephant seals. Leopard seal and southern elephant seal are Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, least concern biota of Oceania, least concern biota of South America, mammals of Chile, mammals of South Australia, pinnipeds of Antarctica, pinnipeds of Australia and pinnipeds of South America.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Spiny dogfish

The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order.

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Stingray

Stingrays are a group of sea rays, a type of cartilaginous fish.

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Tabarin Peninsula

The Tabarin Peninsula is a peninsula long and wide, lying south of the trough between Hope Bay and Duse Bay and forming the east extremity of Trinity Peninsula in the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Thomas Orde-Lees

Major Thomas Hans Orde-Lees, OBE, AFC (23 May 1877 – 1 December 1958) was a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917, a pioneer in the field of parachuting, and was one of the first non-Japanese-born men known to have climbed Mount Fuji during the winter.

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Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (Oilthigh Chill Rìmhinn; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland.

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Walrus

The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Weddell seal

The Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) is a relatively large and abundant true seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica. Leopard seal and weddell seal are least concern biota of Oceania, least concern biota of South America, lobodontins, mammals of Chile, mammals of South Australia, pinnipeds of Antarctica, pinnipeds of Australia and pinnipeds of South America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_seal

Also known as Hydrurga, Hydrurga leptonyx, Leopard Seals, Leopard seal attacks, Sea Leopard, Sexual behavior of leopard seals.

, Penguin, Petrel, Pinniped, Pliocene, Pontoon boat, Rigid inflatable boat, Rockhopper penguin, Ross seal, Rothera Research Station, Simon's Town, Snorkeling, South Georgia, Southern elephant seal, Species, Spiny dogfish, Stingray, Tabarin Peninsula, Thomas Orde-Lees, Tribe (biology), University of St Andrews, Walrus, Weddell seal, Wellington, West Antarctica, Whiskers.

Leopard seal, the Glossary

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See also

Extant Zanclean first appearances

Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Lobodontins

Mammals described in 1820

Pinnipeds of Antarctica

Pinnipeds of Australia

Pinnipeds of South America

Pliocene pinnipeds

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