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

TYPE LOCALITY: "in mari, praesertim septentrionali, etiam Pacifico et Caspico" [Caspian Sea) .

DISTRIBUTION: Caspian Sea.

COMMENTS: Placed in Pusa Scopoli, 1777, followed by Scheffer (1958).