What is Bearded seal?
{{Taxobox | name = Bearded Seal<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Wozencraft | pages = | id = 14001032}}</ref> | status = LC | status_system = iucn3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{IUCN2008|assessors=Kovacs, K. & Lowry, L.|year=2008|id=8010|title=Erignathus barbatus|downloaded=28 January 2009}}</ref> | image = Bearded Seal.jpg | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Carnivora]] | familia = [[Phocidae]] | genus = '''''Erignathus''''' | genus_authority = [[Theodore Nicholas Gill|Gill]], 1866 | species = '''''E. barbatus''''' | binomial = ''Erignathus barbatus'' | binomial_authority = [[Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben|Erxleben]], 1777 | range_map = Erignathus barbatus habitat.png | range_map_caption = Distribution of bearded seal }} The '''bearded seal''' (''Erignathus barbatus''), also called the '''square flipper seal''', is a medium-sized [[pinniped]]. It is found in and near to the [[Arctic Ocean]]. Fossils indicate that, during the [[Pleistocene]] epoch, bearded seals went as far south as [[South Carolina]].<ref name=Berta2012>{{cite journal | author = Berta, A. & Churchill, M. | year = 2012 | title = Pinniped Taxonomy: evidence for species and subspecies | journal = Mammal Review | volume = 42 | issue = 3 | pages = 207–234 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2011.00193.x}}</ref> ==Description== Features of this [[earless seal]] include square front flippers and thick bristles on its muzzle. Adults are greyish-brown in colour, darker on the back. Occasionally the face and neck are reddish-brown. Bearded seal pups are born with a greyish-brown fur with scattered patches of white on the back and head. The bearded seal is unique in the subfamily [[Phocinae]] in having two pairs of [[teat]]s. This is a feature it shares with [[Monachus|monk seals]]. Bearded seals are about {{convert|2.1|m|ft|abbr=on}} to {{convert|2.7|m|ft|abbr=on}} in nose-to-tail length. They are {{convert|200|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} to {{convert|430|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} in weight.<ref>[http://animaldiversity.umm