Abstract

AVILA, Isabel Cristina; ALAVA, Juan José  and  GALVIS RIZO, Carlos Andrés. On the presence of a vagrant Juan Fernández fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii) in the Pacific coast of Colombia: a new extralimital record. Mastozool. neotrop. [online]. 2014, vol.21, n.1, pp.109-114. ISSN 0327-9383.

We report the first record of a male Juan Fernández fur seal, Arctocephalus philippii (Peters, 1866), in the Colombian Pacific coast. The animal was mainly identified according to the external morphology of the head and snout. This observation is the first northernmost record for A. philippii in the Southeastern Pacific, with an extreme movement covering a total distance of approximately 3700-4600 km from its normal geographic range, including the Juan Fernández Archipelago and Desventuradas Islands (San Félix and San Ambrosio), Chile. This finding indicates that vagrant individuals can reach new sites in the Northern Hemisphere and could have a broader geographical displacement than previously thought.

Keywords : Colombia; Juan Fernández fur seal; Otariidae; Pinniped; Southeastern Pacific.

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