Monachus monachus - #5761
Mediterranean Monk Seal
Geographic Distribution
Coastal regions of Mediterranean and Black Seas and NW Africa to Cape Blanc: Algeria, Balearic Isls, Cape Verde, Crete, Cyprus, France, Gambia, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, Senegal, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey.
Order/Family
Phocidae
Genus
Monachus
Specific Epithet
monachus
Image Location
Greece, Thessaly region, Northern Sporades, Alonissos
Image Date
2 August 2018
Photographer
CR Scharf