page_title: List of mammals of Greenland
section_title: Order: Carnivora (carnivorans)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Greenland / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Superorder: Laurasiatheria / Order: Carnivora (carnivorans)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bartrobbe (Erignathus barbatus) auf Spitzbergen
context_page_description: This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Greenland. There are 26 mammal species native to Greenland, of which none are critically endangered, three are endangered, three are vulnerable, two are near threatened and four are data deficient. Only seven of these species are fully terrestrial. Introduced species are not included.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; those on the left are used here, those on the right in some other articles:
context_section_description: There are over 260 species of carnivorans, the majority of which eat meat as their primary dietary item. They have a characteristic skull shape and dentition. Except for walruses and harbor seals, the pinnipeds of Greenland breed on pack ice or shore-fast ice. Walruses are the only local pinniped species to commonly consume warm-blooded prey.
  Suborder: Caniformia
  Family: Canidae (dogs, foxes)
  Genus: Vulpes
  Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus LC
  Greenland Arctic fox, V. l. foragorapusis
  Genus: Canis
  Gray wolf, Canis lupus LC
  Greenland wolf, C. l. orion
  Family: Ursidae (bears)
  Genus: Ursus
  Polar bear, Ursus maritimus VU
  Family: Mustelidae (weasels and relatives)
  Genus: Mustela
  Stoat, Mustela erminea LC
  Polar stoat, M. e. polaris
  Clade Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions and walruses)
  Family: Odobenidae
  Genus: Odobenus
  Walrus, Odobenus rosmarus VU
  Family: Phocidae (earless seals)
  Genus: Cystophora
  Hooded seal, Cystophora cristata VU
  Genus: Erignathus
  Bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus LC
  Genus: Pagophilus
  Harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus LC
  Genus: Phoca
  Harbor seal, Phoca vitulina LC
  Genus: Pusa
  Ringed seal, Pusa hispida LC
caption: Bearded seal
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