Species
Arctocephalus townsendi (Guadalupe fur seal)
Arctocephalus townsendi. Photo: (c) Anneliese Wilson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) is one of six members of the fur seal genus Arctocephalus. Sealers reduced the population to just a few dozen by the late 19th century, but the species had recovered to 10,000 in number by the late 1990s. Many individuals can be found on Mexico’s Guadalupe Island.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
- Order: Carnivora (Carnivorans)
- Superfamily: Phocoidea (Pinnipeds)
- Family: Otariidae (Eared seals)
- Genus: Arctocephalus (Southern fur seals)
- Species: Arctocephalus townsendi (Guadalupe fur seal)
- Genus: Arctocephalus (Southern fur seals)
- Family: Otariidae (Eared seals)
- Superfamily: Phocoidea (Pinnipeds)
- Order: Carnivora (Carnivorans)
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)











