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RECORDS OF THE SUBANTARCTIC FUR SEAL ARCTOCEPHALUS TROPICALIS FROM RODRIGUES AND MAURITIUS, INDIAN OCEAN


J HM DAVID
L SALMON

Abstract

A juvenile Subantarctic fur seal Arctocephalus tropicalis was recorded on the Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues and two were seen on Mauritius. These records are at least 2 500 km from the closest breeding colony (Amsterdam Island) and are the most easterly by some 1 800 km of all previous records of vagrants of this species.

Afr. J. mar. Sci. 25: 403–405

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