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West Indian Monk Seal

Educational resources on West Indian Monk Seal

West Indian Monk Seal or Monachus tropicalis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Extinct . IUCN Profile of the West Indian Monk Seal

Academic web links for the West Indian Monk Seal.


OBIS-SEAMAP - Species Profiles: Common Name, Caribbean monk seal. All Common Names, English: Caribbean monk
http://seamap.env.duke.edu/species/tsn/180660 id=spl-1

Main Index: ...conch; West Indian mahogany; West Indian manatee; West Indian milkberry; West
http://susdl.fcla.edu/lfnh/matrix/T/index_w.htm id=spl-2

ADW: Phocidae: Classification: ...pictures. Species Monachus schauinslandi (Hawaiian monk seal). information.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Phocidae.html id=spl-3

Florida Mammals: Carnivora, Phocidae, Phoca, vitulina, Harbor Seal. Carnivora, Phocidae, Monachus,
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mammals/table1.htm id=spl-4

WhaleNet Data Archive 1998: Whale Stocks Information/NMFS: Weddell Seal, Leptonychotes weddellii, No Special Status. West Indian Monk Seal,
http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/whalenet98/0317.html id=spl-5

Virginia Hayssen: Seal leonina, 391, Southern Elephant Seal. Monachus tropicalis, 747, West
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/msigenus.html id=spl-6

Mammalian Species Accounts: Dactylomys boliviensis); Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides); West Indian
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/msiaccounts.html id=spl-7

Nat'l Academies Press, Low-Frequency Sound and Marine Mammals ...: ...seal harp seal, Greenland seal ribbon seal bearded seal hooded seal, bladdernose
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309050251/html/65.html id=spl-8

Table of Contents and Excerpt, Schmidly, The Mammals of Texas: ...allies): Family Phocidae (earless seals): West Indian Monk Seal, Monachus
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exschmap.html id=spl-9





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