What is "ringed seal"

Ringed \Ringed\, a.

1. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.

2. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. ``A ringed wife.''
   --Tennyson.

   Ringed seal (Zo["o]l.), a North Pacific seal ( Phoca f[oe]tida) having ringlike spots on the body.

   Ringed snake (Zo["o]l.), a harmless European snake ( Tropidonotus natrix) common in England.

   Ringed worm (Zo["o]l.), an annelid.

n. (taxlink Pusa hispida species), an earless seal inhabiting arctic and subarctic coasts.

The ringed seal (Pusa hispida or Phoca hispida), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal (family: Phocidae) inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely greater than 1.5 m in length, with a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light grey rings, hence its common name. It is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the Northern Hemisphere: ranging throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe. Ringed seals are one of the primary prey of polar bears and have long been a component of the diet of indigenous people of the Arctic.