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Species Lobodon carcinophagus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1842)

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Species Lobodon carcinophagus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1842)

Crab-eater Seal

  • Phoca carcinophaga Jacquinot, C.H. 1842. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, executé... pendant... 1837–1840 sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville... publie... sous la direction superière de M. Jacquinot. Paris : Longman's pp. 30 vols 1-27 atlas [atlas pl. 10].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown, South Orkney Ils.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Scheffer, V.B. 1958. Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. A review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford : Stanford University Press x 179 pp. 32 pls.
  • Stenorhynchus serridens Owen, R. 1843. Notice of a new species of seal (Stenorhynchus serridens). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 331.
    Type data:
     Status unknown, unknown.
  • Lobodon cancrivora Gray, J.E. 1844. The seals of the Southern Hemisphere. 1-8, 14-17 pls 1-10 in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843, Volume 1 Mammalia, Birds. London : E.W. Janson [7] [incorrect subsequent spelling for Lobodon carcinophaga Hombron & Jacquinot, 1842].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Scheffer, V.B. 1958. Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses. A review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford : Stanford University Press x 179 pp. 32 pls [116]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Heard Is.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, oceanic, pelagic, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Diet almost exclusively krill.

 

General References

Crisp, E.A., Messer, M. & Shaughnessy, P.D. 1988. Intestinaol lactase and other disaccharidase activities of a suckling crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. B. Comparative Biochemistry 90: 371-374

Gilbert, J.R. & Erickson, A.W. 1977. Distribution and abundance of seals in the pack ice of the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean. pp. 703-740 in Llano, G.A. (ed). Adaptation within Antactic Ecosystems. Washington DC : Smithsonian Institution

Green, B., Fogerty, A., Libke, J., Newgrain, K. & Shaughnessy, P. 1993. Aspects of lactation in the crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus). Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 203-213

King, J.E. 1983. Seals of the World. 2nd Edition. St Lucia : Univ. Queensland Press 240 pp.

King, J.E. 1995. Crab-eater Seal Lobodon carcinophagus. pp. 692-693 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Kooyman, G.L. 1981. Crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus (Hombron and Jacquinot, 1842). pp. 221-235 in Ridgway, S.H. & Harrison, R.J. (eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 2. Seals. London : Academic Press

Messer, M., Crisp, E.A. & Newgrain, K. 1988. Studies on the carbohydrate contentof milk of the crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. B. Comparative Biochemistry 90: 367-370

Shaughnessy, P.D. 1991. Immobiliation of crabeater seals, Lobodon carcinophagus, ketamine and diazepam. Wildlife Research 18: 165-168

Siniff, D.B., Stirling, I., Bengston, J.L. & Reichle, R.A. 1979. Social and reproductive behaviour of the crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) during the austral spring. Canadian Journal of Zoology 57: 2243-2255

Southwell, C.J. 2004. Satellite dive recorders provide insights into the reproductive strategies of crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophagus). Journal of Zoology, London 264: 399-402

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Crab-eater Seal)