Welcome to /r/seals, a subreddit dedicated to any content related to seals, sea lions, and walruses !

 
Submission rules:

• Pictures should be direct links: consider using imgur or similar hosts, or uploading directly to reddit

• GIFs should also be direct links: consider using gfycat, imgur, or similar hosts

• Videos should be direct links if possible: preferred hosts are YouTube or Dailymotion, similar hosts are also accepted

Linking to full websites is also accepted for any text related to pinnipeds

Moderators may remove low-quality or irrelevant posts at their discretion

All pinnipeds are welcome in this subreddit (i.e., phocidae, otariidae, odobenidae), not only seals!

More specifically, there are 33 species of pinnipeds, organized as follows:

• 18 phocidae (seals)
  
• 14 otariidae (sea lions, fur seals)
  
• 1 odobenidae (walruses)
  

Here's a list featuring all the species in the clade:

Phocidae (true seals, earless seals)

Harbor seal
Grey seal
Caspian seal
Baikal seal
Hooded seal
Bearded seal
Harp seal
Ringed seal
Spotted seal
Ribbon seal
Weddell seal
Leopard seal
Crabeater seal
Ross seal
Southern elephant seal
Northern elephant seal
Mediterranean monk seal
Hawaiian monk seal

Otariidae (eared seals: sea lions, fur seals)

Antarctic fur seal
Guadalupe fur seal
Juan Fernández fur seal
Galápagos fur seal
New Zealand fur seal
Australian sea lion
New Zealand sea lion
Subantarctic fur seal
Brown fur seal
South American sea lion
California seal lion
Galápagos sea lion
Steller seal lion
Northern fur seal

Odobenidae (walruses)

Walrus