Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus 1758)

[Phoca] rosmarus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 38.

Type Locality: "intra Zonam arcticam Europae, Asiae, Americae".

Vernacular Names: Walrus.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Odobenus rosmarus subsp. rosmarus Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Odobenus rosmarus subsp. divergens Illiger 1815

Subspecies Odobenus rosmarus subsp. laptevi Chapskii 1940

Distribution: Arctic sea- coastal regions of Belgium (vagrant), Canada, Great Britain (vagrant), Greenland, Iceland (vagrant), Japan (Honshu), Netherlands (vagrant), Norway, Russia, USA (Alaska, New England-vagrant).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (Canada); IUCN – Data Deficient as O. r. laptevi, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Fay (1985). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Fay (1985). Distributional information from Rice (1998).