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| name = Bearded Seal

| status = LR/lc

| image = Bearded Seal.jpg

| image_width = 240px

| regnum = [[Animal]]ia

| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]

| classis = [[mammal|Mammalia]]

| ordo = [[Carnivora]]

| familia = [[Phocidae]]

| genus = '''''Erignathus'''''

| genus_authority = [[Theodore Nicholas Gill|Gill]], 1866

| species = '''''E. barbatus'''''

| binomial = ''Erignathus barbatus''

| binomial_authority = [[Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben|Erxleben]], [[1777]]

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The '''bearded seal''' (''Erignathus barbatus'') or '''square flipper seal''', is a medium-sized [[seal (mammal)|seal]] that is found in and near to the [[Arctic Ocean]]. These seals range in color from gray to yellow. Distinguishing features include square foreflippers and thick bristles on their muzzles.

The bearded seal is a primary food source for [[polar bear]]s and for the [[Inuit]] of the arctic coast. The [[Inuktitut]] name for the seal is Ugyuk or Oogrook. The seals skin is used to cover a wooden frame boat ([[Umiak]]).

The body fat content of a bearded seal is 30-40%.

[[Image:beardedseal2.jpg|left|thumb|Bearded seal on ice, [[Svalbard]]]]

==References==

* {{IUCN2006|assessors=Seal Specialist Group|year=1996|id=8010|title=Erignathus barbatus|downloaded=12 May 2006}}

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