WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828)

Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828)
AphiaID: 255003

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Pinnipedia (Infraorder) > Otariidae (Family) > Zalophus (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Zalophus Gill, 1866

Sources

basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	California sea lion	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

East North Pacific [details]

Links

To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To ITIS

Image

Zalophus californianus
added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked

Edit
history

Date	action	by
2007-12-24 20:10:49Z	created	Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-20 10:05:06Z	changed	Churchill, Morgan
2010-05-20 10:09:49Z	checked	Berta, Annalisa

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Citation: Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2010). Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255003 on 2010-07-30

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