MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)

WoRMS taxon details

Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)

AphiaID

137081 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137081)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Monachus Fleming, 1822

Original name

Phoca monachus Hermann, 1779

Synonymised names

Phoca monachus Hermann, 1779 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Phoca monachus Hermann, 1779) Hermann, J. (1779). Beschreibung der Münchs-Robbe. Beschäftigungen der Berlinischen Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde. 4: 456-509, Taf. XII-XIII. [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137081 on 2025-04-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-05-20 10:05:06Z

changed

Churchill, Morgan

2010-05-20 10:09:49Z

checked

Berta, Annalisa

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Phoca monachus Hermann, 1779) Hermann, J. (1779). Beschreibung der Münchs-Robbe. Beschäftigungen der Berlinischen Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde. 4: 456-509, Taf. XII-XIII. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (WoRCS) Gerovasileiou, V.; Chintiroglou, C. C.; Vafidis, D.; Koutsoubas, D.; Sini, M.; Dailianis, T.; Issaris, Y.; Akritopoulou, E.; Dimarchopoulou, D.; Voultsiadou, E. (2015). Census of biodiversity in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science. 16 (1), 245-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1069 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Albanian	foka e Mesdheut	[details]
Bulgarian	Тюлен монахtyulen monаh	[details]
Danish	munkesæl	[details]
Dutch	monniksrob	[details]
English	monk sealMediterranean monk seal	[details]
French	phoque moine	[details]
German	MönchsrobbeMittelmeer-Mönchsrobbe	[details]
Hebrew	כלב-ים ים-תיכוני	[details]
Italian	foca monaca	[details]
Lithuanian	viduržemio jūros ruonis vienuolis	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Μεσογειακή φώκια	[details]
Polish	mniszka śródziemnomorska	[details]
Romanian	foca-episcopfoca cu burtă albă	[details]
Russian	тюлень-монах	[details]
Slovenian	Sredozemska medvedjicaredozemska medvedjica	[details]
Spanish	foca monje del Mediterráneofoca monje	[details]
Turkish	Akdeniz foku	[details]
Ukrainian	Тюлень-монах середземноморськийТюлень-монах звичайнийТюлень-монахТюлень середземноморський	[details]

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Monachus monachus)
To GenBank (63 nucleotides; 107 proteins) (from synonym Phoca monachus Hermann, 1779)
To GenBank (63 nucleotides; 107 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To PESI
To ITIS

Unreviewed

Monachus monachus