Walrus

Odobenus rosmarus · Odobenidae

The walrus is a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. It is the only extant species in the family Odobenidae and genus Odobenus. This species is subdivided into two subspecies: the Atlantic walrus, which lives in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific walrus, which lives in the Pacific Ocean.

Where the Walrus lives

Recorded in United States of America, Russia and Netherlands (North America and Europe).

Most records fall in Chukchi Autonomous Okrug and Alaska.

See the Walrus’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Vulnerable (VU). At risk: it could become endangered. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 24,470 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.