Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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A walrus as depicted by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in 1604 (Conrad Gesner, 1604: Historiae animalium, p. 211.)

English: Walrus
Portuguese: Morsa
Norwegian: Hvalross (bm)/ Kvalross (nn)
North Sámi: Morša
Icelandic: Rostungur
Dutch: Walrus
German: Walross
French: Morse
Spanish: Morsa
Catalan: Morsa
Italian: Tricheco
Greek: Θαλάσσιος ίππος; Οδόβαινος
Creole

Placenames referring to walrus

Norway

Morššalássát

(Zoo)archaeological sites featuring Odobenus rosmarus

Bergen

References

IUCN: Odobenus rosmarus
OBIS: Odobenus rosmarus
Delliaux, M. & A. Gautier (2018). Cheval ou baleine ? Les noms du morse dans les mondes septentrionaux (IXe-milieu du XVIe siècle), in Jacquemard, C., Gauvin, B., Lucas-Avenel, M.-A., Clavel, B. & Buquet, T. (éds), Animaux aquatiques et monstres des mers septentrionales (imaginer, connaître, exploiter, de l’Antiquité à 1600). Anthropozoologica 53 (15): 175-183. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2018v53a15

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