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   Comb spotted loo: greater common loon (Gavia immer immer) (1870 Can Naturalist v, 411); LOO.
   spotted seal: harbour seal (Phoca vitulina); BAY SEAL.
   1880 Standard [London] 20 May, p. 3 Four or five species are pursued off the shores of Newfoundland and in the Arctic Regions proper, viz:—the 'ground' or 'grown' seal, the saddle-back, or harp seal, so called from the saddle or harp-shaped mark on the back of the males, the blubber-nose, and the floe rat—which is the smallest species found in the North Atlantic, and much more rarely the spotted seal, or 'kassigiak' of the Eskimo.
   spotted wolf: catfish (Anarhichas minor) (1971 RLS 3, p. 3).

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