Phoca vitulina subsp. vitulina Linnaeus 1758

Phoca vitulina subsp. vitulina Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 38.

Type Locality: "in mari Europæo" restricted by Thomas (1911 a) to "Mari Bothnico et Baltico", however, presently it does not occur in the Gulf of Bothnia (Bobrinski et al., 1944) .

Synonyms: Phoca vitulina subsp. canina Pallas 1811; Phoca vitulina subsp. linnaei Lesson 1828; Phoca vitulina subsp. littorea Thienemann 1824; Phoca vitulina subsp. scopulicola Thienemann 1824; Phoca vitulina subsp. thienemannii Lesson 1828; Phoca vitulina subsp. variegata Nilsson 1820 .