Pictures and facts about the Hooded seal

Hooded seal

Order : Carnivora
Family : Phocidae
Genus : Cystophora

Facts about the genus Cystophora, the hooded seal

1038/425360a TIM LINCOLN The larva of the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora is an uncomplicated creature: it consists of only five cell types.

Cystophorinea includes 3 species, of which only hooded seal are found in Norwegian waters.

Fourteen different species including the Least Shrew, the Mexican Free-Tailed Bat and the Hooded Seal are presented in detailed illustrations and a scrupulously researched text.

The greatest enemy of the the hooded seal are human beings Hooded seals are hunted commercially for meat, oil and pelts Within the Gulf of St.

The hooded seal is a large, very distinctive seal Males can grow to be 3 meters long and weigh up to 400 kg Females are slightly smaller, measuring up to 2 m in length, and weighing up to 300kg The hooded seal is so named because the male has an inflatable trunk on its snout The

Predators of the hooded seal are sharks and polar bears. (Full text)

The jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora is known to contain three distant ARH homologs, which have been recruited as eye lens crystallins. (Full text)

Grayish with either light or dark blotches (less distinct in the female), the hooded seal is gregarious and apparently feeds mainly on fish. (Full text)

Two other species of seals: Harp and Hooded seal are scarce, but less rare than a few years ago, and are usually seen in late fall/early winter. (Full text)

In this, the hooded seal is the world record holder: A pup gains, on average, 15 pounds each day, expanding visibly from birth to weaning in an explosion of growth that takes just four days. (Full text)

A number of hooded seal are, however, also caught in Eastern Greenland. (Full text)

Known predators of the Hooded seal are Polar bears, Greenland sharks, and Orca (Killer whales). (Full text)

The life span of the Hooded seal is 30-35 years of age. (Full text)

Molecular work in progress indicates that Cystophora is in fact the sister group to other phocines (except for Erignathus) and that this arrangement will therefore require revsion. (Full text)

The male of the hooded seal is about two and a half meters long and weighs 300 kg. (Full text)

Cystophora cristata The hooded seal is so named because of a large elastic nasal cavity, or “hood”, extending (Full text)

So named because of the inflatable crest or hood on the adult male's forehead, the ice-breeding hooded seal is found in deep waters in the far north Atlantic Ocean. (Full text)