Erasing the extinct: the hunt for caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices

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T he Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to the gulf of Mexico, was declared extinct by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 1994 and the the authors National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. The Caribbean monk seal, also known as the Jamaican seal or West Indies seal in Englishlanguage historical sources and foca monje del Caribe in Spanish, is in the family of seals known as monk seals (the genus Monachus) that includes one species in the Mediterranean . . .

 



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