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title: "Nerpa obrączkowana"
description: "Pusa hispida — Ssaki. The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is a small earless seal species found in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/ringed-seal
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Nerpa obrączkowana

> Pusa hispida — Ssaki. The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is a small earless seal species found in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

- Scientific name: *Pusa hispida*
- Category: `mammals` (Ssaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże), `arctic` (Arktyka)
- iNaturalist observations: 892
- Wikidata: [Q203208](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203208)
- iNaturalist taxon: [41691](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41691)

## Names

- en: Ringed Seal
- de: Ringelrobbe
- es: Foca ocelada
- fr: Phoque annelé
- nl: Ringelrob
- pt: Foca-anelada
- pl: Nerpa obrączkowana

## Countries with the most observations

RU (288), CA (148), US (56), SJ (50), GL (36), FI (26), SE (11), NL (6), EE (5), NO (5), IS (3)

## Summary

The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is a small earless seal species found in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Its common name is derived from a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light gray rings. 
The ringed seal is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the Northern Hemisphere; they can be found throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland,  Baltic Sea, Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland. Two freshwater subspecies live in northern Europe. They are the smallest…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringed_seal

## Photo

![Nerpa obrączkowana](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/ringed-seal/medium.jpg)

Photo: Игорь Загребин · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148513650

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/ringed-seal?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).