in taxon seal ringed seal material ringed seal 2025-02-01T03:59:04Z A ringed seal which is dead or alive and has a relatively intact body. A whole ringed seal. The ringed seal (*Pusa hispida*), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal (family: Phocidae) inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions... Ringed seals occur throughout the Arctic Ocean. They can be found in the Baltic Sea, the Bering Sea and the Hudson Bay. They prefer to rest on ice floe and will move farther north for denser ice. One subspecies can be found in freshwater. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5275-8866 jar seal pusa hispida seal family Pusa hispida ready for release