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Crabeater seal - LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Meat-eating Mammals (Carnivora)
Family: Phocidae.
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The Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) is circumpolar in distribution and can be the most commonly seen seal along the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Crabeater seals are unique among phocids in that this species forms family groups consisting of an adult female, her pup, and an adult male.
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On one berg we have 6 Crabeater seals. Another large berg has beautiful blue caves carved in the side. Glacial ice has a turquoise blue color. After lunch and on the other side of the sound we land at Kinnes Cove on Joinville Island.
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The other three species are the Weddell seal, Ross seal and Crabeater seal. There are 32 members of the Order Pinnipedia (fin-footed) in the world, 18 of which are true seals.
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pacifica lives in the Antarctic Ocean and is the favourite food of baleen whales and crabeater seals.
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Antarctic seals include the voracious leopard seal, which feeds on penguins and other sea birds, and the Ross, Weddell, and crabeater seals. The warm-water seals are the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Hawaiian species of monk seal.
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still exists on South Georgia Island and other areas in the South Atlantic Ocean. The Antarctic seals include the leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx; Weddell's seal, Leptoncyhotes weddelli; the Ross seal, Ommatophoca rossi; and the crabeater seal, ...
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 See also: Leopard, Elephant, Sea Lion, Elephant Seal, Antarctic fur seal
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