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Southern elephant seal
Southern elephant seal
(Mirounga leonina)
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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Carnivora
Family
Phocidae
Genus
Mirounga
(1)
Size
Male weight: up to 3700 kg
(2)
Female weight: 400 - 900 kg
(2)
Status
Classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List
(1)
, and listed on Appendix II of CITES
(3)
.
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