Species Detail - Common Seal (Phoca vitulina) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Ireland's BioBlitz".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Species image
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Phoca vitulina
Common Seal
NBNSYS0000005135
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phvit
Linnaeus, 1758
marine mammal
Species
9
6
6
21/05/2011
11/06/2016
1 January (recorded in 1969)
31 December (recorded in 1988)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ireland's BioBlitz, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Seal (Phoca vitulina), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/189/Species/134647>