Mammalia · Carnivora
Walrus
Odobenus rosmarus
Enormous pinniped of icy, ice-covered coastal shelf seas, weighing up to 1.5 metric tons with thick, heavily wrinkled cinnamon-brown hide.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1463 licence-filtered records across 137 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (22)
- Argyll Biological Records Dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Artportalen (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Walrus in Arctic Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Walrus in North Pacific Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- HBRG Vertebrates (not Badger) Dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Notebook, general observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Red de varamientos de Euskadi (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- TGS Seismic Survey Visual Sightings in Chukchi Sea 2013 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)