What is Saimaa ringed seal?
{{Subspeciesbox | name = Saimaa ringed seal | image = Pusa hispida saimensis ca 1956.jpg | image_caption = | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/esa_table.pdf |title=Endangered and Threatened Species under NMFS' Jurisdiction |date=6 April 2010 |publisher=United States Fish &amp; Wildlife Service |access-date=11 November 2010 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129160552/https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/esa_table.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> | genus = Pusa | species = hispida | species_link = Ringed seal | subspecies = saimensis | authority = ([[Oscar Frithiof Nordqvist|Nordquist]], 1899) | synonyms = <center>''Phoca hispida saimensis''</center> | range_map = Phoca_Hispida_Saimensis_Distribution.PNG }} The '''Saimaa ringed seal''' (''Pusa hispida saimensis'') is a sub[[species]] of [[ringed seal]] (''Pusa hispida''). Usually seals live in the [[sea]], but Saimaa ringed seals live in [[Lake Saimaa]] in [[Finland]]. There are only 320 Saimaa ringed seals in the [[world]]. They are among the most [[Endangered species|endangered]] seals in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title= Ultra-rare Saimaa seal population recovers slowly |url= http://yle.fi/uutiset/ultra-rare_saimaa_seal_population_recovers_slowly/6271419 |access-date=10 January 2013}}</ref> After the last [[ice age]] was over, dry land was rising slowly. This isolated Lake Saimaa from the sea. Some seals were also isolated in Saimaa. Their successors become Saimaa ringed seals.<ref>{{cite web |title= The Saimaa Ringed Seal Genome Project |url= http://www.saimaaringedseal.org/fi/saimaaringedseal/genome |access-date= 9 December 2015 |archive-date= 4 March 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133109/http://www.saimaaringedseal.org/fi/saimaaringedseal/genome |url-status= dead }}</ref> ==Appearance== [[Image:Pusa hispida saimensis at the Finnish Museum of Natural History 20110824.jpg|thumb|left|150px|A