Arctocephalus pusillus, South African fur seal : fisheries
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Arctocephalus pusillus   (Schreber, 1775)

South African fur seal

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Arctocephalus pusillus

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Carnivora | Otariidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Bathydemersal; depth range 200 - 200 m (Ref. 1394).  Temperate; 0°N - 90°S, 0°W - 160°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Southeast Atlantic: Angola to South Africa. Southeast Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific: South Central and West Australia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 230 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 1394); 180 cm TL (female); max. published weight: 360.0 kg (Ref. 1394); max. published weight: 360.0 kg

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found 160 km offshore. Feeds on a wide variety of prey, including pelagic, mid-water, and benthic animals, such as schooling and solitary fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans (Ref. 1394).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber 1993 FAO species Identification Guide: Marine Mammals of the World. Rome, FAO. 320 p. + 587 figures. (Ref. 1394)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 02 March 2015

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Appendix II: International trade monitored

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Fisheries: landings, species profile | FishSource |

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Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 11.4 - 20.8, mean 16.1 (based on 574 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.3-0.36).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): High to very high vulnerability (70 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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