earless seal, hair seal, true seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers

genus Phoca, Phoca - type genus of the Phocidae: earless seals

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earless seal genus Phoca hair seal harbor seal Phoca Phoca vitulina Sea calf true seal			The Guardian has learned that the latest figures show that last year common seal numbers fell from 4,256 to 3,379 in Orkney, from 1,056 to 800 along the eastern coast of the northern Highlands, from 113 to 102 in the north-east, in Grampian, and from 6,702 to 4,732 on the west coast from Oban to the Mull of Kintyre. Not so common: scientists raise alarm as Britain's seals disappear by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk The centre took in the four-month-old common seal pup which weighed a healthy 35kgs. WALES: SEAL PUP BACK IN THE SEA by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Expert Jane Delany, a lecturer in the school of marine science and technology at Newcastle University, said: "The grey or common seal are found on the beaches in the North East all of the time, they are not unusual. Blubber, I'm lost! VISITOR FROM NORTH ATLANTIC LOSES HIS WAY AND ENDS ... by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			common plantain common pleas common plum common polypody common pond-skater common prayer common privet common purslane Common pyrites common raccoon common racoon common ragweed Common recovery common reed common room common rorqual common rose mallow common roundworm common rush common sage common salt common school common scold common scoter common scurvy grass common seal common sense common servicing common shares common shiner common shrew common sickle pine common snapping turtle common snowberry common soldier common sorrel common speedwell common spindle tree common spoonbill common spotted orchid common St John's wort common staghorn fern common starling common stinkhorn common stock common stock equivalent common sunflower common supplies common tarweed common teasel common thorn apple			Common Runtime Environment Common Runtime Language common rush Common Russell's viper Common Russell's viper common sage Common Salivary Protein 1 common sallow common sallow common sallow common sallows common sallows common sallows common salt common salt common salt common salt Common Sandpiper Common SAR common saying Common Scenario Control Environment common school Common School Crusade Common schools common scold common scold Common scorpionflies Common scorpionfly common scoter common scurvy grass common seal common seals common seals Common Section of the Sensor Requirements Document Common Secure Interoperability protocol Common Security and Defence Policy Common Security Guard Common Security Protocol Common Security Requirement Statement Common Security Services Manager Common Semantics Syntax Common Senates Teaching Excellence and Policy Committee common sense common sense common sense Common Sense and Forward Thinking Common Sense for Drug Policy Common Sense for the Biochemist Common Sense Initiative Common Sense Investment Management Common Sense Journalism Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces Common Sense Media Common Sense Office Furniture Common Sense RC Common sense revolts Common Sense Science Common Sensor Database

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