Phoca sibirica Gmelin, 1788 . In Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:64.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Lake Baikal; and "Lake Oron."

DISTRIBUTION: Lake Baikal (U.S. S. R.).

COMMENT: Does not occur in Lake Oron; see Scheffer, 1958, Seals, sealions, and walruses, Stanford Univ. Press, p. 101.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002004007001.