---
title: "Foka plamista"
description: "Phoca largha — Ssaki. The spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a species of earless seal (or true seal, Phocidae)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/spotted-seal
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Foka plamista

> Phoca largha — Ssaki. The spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a species of earless seal (or true seal, Phocidae).

- Scientific name: *Phoca largha*
- Category: `mammals` (Ssaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże), `arctic` (Arktyka)
- iNaturalist observations: 875
- Wikidata: [Q494968](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q494968)
- iNaturalist taxon: [41714](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41714)

## Names

- en: Spotted Seal
- de: Largha-Robbe
- es: Foca manchada
- fr: Phoque tacheté
- nl: Larghazeehond
- pt: Foca-pintada
- pl: Foka plamista

## Countries with the most observations

RU (536), JP (49), US (34), CN (33), KR (33), KP (9)

## Summary

The spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a species of earless seal (or true seal, Phocidae). It inhabits ice floes and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas. It is primarily found along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas and south to the northern Yellow Sea and it migrates south as far as northern Huanghai and the western Sea of Japan. It is also found in Alaska from the southeastern Bristol Bay to Demarcation Point during the ice-free seasons of summer and autumn when spotted seals mate and have pups. Smaller numbers are found…

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

## Photo

![Foka plamista](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotted-seal/medium.jpg)

Photo: NOAA Fisheries · Public domain · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41714

## Machine access

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