The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Bears, Pinnipeds and Hyenas.

HYAENINAE


This lineage comprises 3 species within two genera:

Spotted Hyena Crocuta crocuta

Brown Hyena Hyaena brunnea
Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena
 
Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

The range of this species extends across much of sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east, and south to Namibia, Botswana and northern South Africa; within this area the species is absent only from the Congo River Basin and the southern coastline of West Africa.

Monotypic.

Photo by @lintworm

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Striped Hyena (Hyaena hyaena)

The range of this species extends across much of north and east Africa, into the Arabian Peninsula, Middle East and Indian subcontinent.

Five subspecies are recognised:

H. h. barbara
H. h. dubbah - photo by @TeaLovingDave

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H. h. hyaena - photo by @fofo

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H. h. sultana - photo by @vogelcommando

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H. h. syriaca - photo by @Hix

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PROTELINAE


This lineage comprises a single species:

Aardwolf (Proteles cristata)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations in south and east Africa; the former of these extends from southern Angola and Zambia, through Namibia and Botswana to South Africa. The latter extends from the extreme southeast of Egypt in the north, through Ethiopia and Somalia as far south as central Tanzania.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. c. cristata - photo by @ro6ca66

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P. c. septentrionalis - photo by @ro6ca66

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TeaLovingDave said:
Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Arctic Ocean, representing a patchy but circumpolar distribution which extends as far south as Iceland and the Newfoundland coastline in the northern Atlantic, and the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific.

Two subspecies are recognised:

E. b. barbatus
E. b. nautica

No photographs of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery by Zoochatters.
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Considering this is held in several collections this is a bit of a surprise.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Oh, I have more than just an idea; the next thread is going to be Prosimians, which should complement the ongoing thread @Chlidonias is writing based around the Haplorhini nicely.
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I thought he was doing all primates?

I don't mean to keep going on about this but wouldn't it make more sense structurally and logistically to keep the threads combined by Order (ie one for Carnivora, one for Primates, one for Artiodactyla, etc.) instead of splitting them up randomly by Family or Suborder?

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I thought he was doing all primates?
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No, we've already been discussing where these threads will go in the future and he suggested I deal with prosimians - and potentially new world monkeys - as he doesn't have much interest in these groups :)

ThylacineAlive said:
I don't mean to keep going on about this but wouldn't it make more sense structurally and logistically to keep the threads combined by Order (ie one for Carnivora, one for Primates, one for Artiodactyla, etc.) instead of splitting them up randomly by Family or Suborder?
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The bonus of splitting groups at varying levels - or indeed dealing with multiple groups at once - is that it allows us to produce nice meaty threads but not overload any given thread, nor have threads which don't even last a page. For instance, were we to stick to Order-level threads we would theoretically have a Pholidota thread which was over before it even started, and a Rodentia one which is even longer than the Nonsense Thread :p

In any case, we do plan an index thread which will group all the threads together :)
 
We do, but we also only have eight species for the thread to contain :p even if there are photographs of three taxa in the gallery.
 
Even more reduced would be the aardvark thread, with a single species...

Instead that, a pangolin + edentate (=xenarthran) thread would be enough "meaty", as you called it :)
 
A photograph of Bearded Seal taken by @alexkant has been added to the relevant portion of the thread.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus)

The range of this species has contracted significantly; the historical extent of distribution extended throughout the Black Sea and Mediterranean and into the north Atlantic, as far north as the coast of Portugal, as far south as Cape Verde and as far west as the Azores. The current distribution comprises several fragmented and disjunct populations, primarily in Madeira and the coast of Mauritania in the Atlantic, and in the Mediterranean from the Aegean Sea east to the southern coast of Turkey and the coastline of Cyprus.

Monotypic.

No photographs of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery by Zoochatters.
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Looks like there is one now:

Mediterranean Monk Seal Attica Zoo | ZooChat
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Galápagos Fur Seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis)

The range of this species is restricted to the Galapagos Islands, with unconfirmed reports of populations on the coastline of mainland Ecuador.

Monotypic.

No photographs of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery by Zoochatters.
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I had uploaded 4 photos here: Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) 2012 - ZooChat

which of course aren't searchable because of the accent over the second "a" in Galapagos :rolleyes:
 
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