Noun
A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere are three resident pods that eat salmon, but also some transient orcas that come to take harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). Source: Internet
Seals are on rare occasions killed by brown bears, including eye-witness accounts of Russian bears ambushing spotted (Phoca largha) and harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). Source: Internet
More recently, five species have been split off from Phoca, forming three additional genera. Source: Internet
The genera Phoca and Pusa could have arisen when a phocine lineage traveled from the Paratethys Sea to the Arctic Basin and subsequently went eastward. Source: Internet