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The Mediterranean Monk Seal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

A. van Wijngaarden
A. van Wijngaarden
Affiliation:
Netherlands State Institute for Conservation Research
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In former times the Mediterranean Monk Seal, Monachus monachus (Hermann), was abundant on the Black Sea and Mediterranean coasts, along the Atlantic seaboard of north-west Africa and around Madeira and the Canary Islands. The following records are especially interesting.

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Oryx , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , October 1962 , pp. 270 - 273
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1962

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