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COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Atlantic walrus Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus High Arctic population, Central-Low Arctic population, Nova Scotia-Newfoundland-Gulf of St. Lawrence population in...: CW69-14/461-2017E-PDF

"Walrus are large gregarious pinnipeds with upper canine teeth that grow into long tusks and a moustache of quill-like vibrissae. Newborns are 120 cm long and 55 kg; males can grow to 315 cm and 1100 kg and females to 277 cm and 800 kg. The Atlantic Walrus, Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) is one of two extant subspecies, the other being the Pacific Walrus (O. r. divergens). Atlantic Walrus traditionally provided important staples in the subsistence economy of the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland. The hunts are still of great social and cultural significance, and the economic value of the meat and ivory is substantial. The Walrus is important as the only living species in its family and a key link in the Arctic food web between bivalve molluscs and humans"--Wildlife Species Description and Significance, p. v.

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Department/Agency
  • Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
  • Canadian Wildlife Service.
  • Canada. Environment and Climate Change Canada.
TitleCOSEWIC assessment and status report on the Atlantic walrus Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus High Arctic population, Central-Low Arctic population, Nova Scotia-Newfoundland-Gulf of St. Lawrence population in Canada / Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
Variant title
  • Atlantic walrus Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus High Arctic population, Central-Low Arctic population, Nova Scotia-Newfoundland-Gulf of St. Lawrence population in Canada
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
Earlier editionCOSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Atlantic walrus Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus in Canada
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Title from cover.
  • "High Arctic population - Special Concern, Central-Low Arctic population - Special Concern, Nova Scotia-Newfoundland-Gulf of St. Lawrence population - Extinct 2017"--Cover.
  • Issued also in French under title: Évaluation et rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le Morse de l’Atlantique Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus population du Haut-Arctique, population du centre de l’Arctique et du Bas-Arctique, population de la Nouvelle-Écosse, de Terre-Neuve et du golfe du Saint-Laurent au Canada.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa : Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, 2017.
Descriptionxxi, 89 p. : ill., maps, graphs, photos
ISBN978-0-660-09209-6
Catalogue number
  • CW69-14/461-2017E-PDF
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