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What is a phoca?

What is a phoca? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) A seal.
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Fig. 59 shows the stomach in Phoca vitulina, the harbor seal.
Thyroid hormone dynamics during the nursing period in harbour seals, Phoca vitulina.
Female distribution, genetic relatedness, and fostering behaviour in harbour seals, Phoca vitulina.
Originally in the genus Phoca with a number of other species, it has since been reclassified into its own genus Pagophilus.
The genera Phoca and Pusa could have arisen when a phocine lineage traveled from the Paratethys Sea to the Arctic Basin and subsequently went eastward.
In Phoca the dental formula is as in the last, but the teeth are smaller and more pointed.

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