Name and year: Erxleben, 1777.
The northernmost part is distributed in the Russian-European part of the Arctic Ocean, the West Laptev Sea, the Barents Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. The western Atlantic is distributed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Greenland south to Hudson Bay, Labrador and Newfoundland; The East Atlantic is located in Iceland and Norway. Bearded seal arctic subspecies (scientific name: bearded seal)
Name and year: Pallas, 18 1 1.
Distributed in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Strait, from Bristol Bay to Cape Barrow and Sea of Okhotsk; As far south as Hokkaido, it occasionally appears in China waters.