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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]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Host of  Mycoplasma zalophi Haulena, Gulland, Lawrence, Fauquier, Jang, Aldridge, Spraker, Thomas, Brown, Wendland & Davidson, 2006 (unknown)
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (132 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (561 nucleotides; 119 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Image 
Zalophus californianus
Zalophus californianus
added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255003
Taxonomic
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. (2013). Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255003 on 2013-05-24
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