Wildlifeof Japan
Harbor Seal
Bats
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Phoca vitulina
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) is a true seal recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Near threatened (Japan MOE Red List 2020).