harp seal 
noun
A slender North Atlantic seal that typically has a dark harp-shaped mark on its grey back.
- Pagophilus groenlandicus, family Phocidae.
- These on-shore sightings may represent part of a general southward shift in the winter habitat of the harp seal noted in the early to mid 1990s in the open waters off Newfoundland and Labrador.
- The curious bearded seal and harp seal birth their pups nearby ice floes or merely bask in the warmth of the midnight sun.