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SPECIES Eumetopias jubatus
| Author: | Schreber, 1776. | | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 3(17): 300 (text) [1776]; see also 3(17):pl. 83.B[1776]. | | Common Name: | Steller Sea Lion | | Type Locality: | "...Aufenthalt in dem nördlichen Theil des stillen Meeres...westlichen Küste von Amerika... östlichen von Kamtschatka...Inseln...Küsten unter dem 56ten Grade der Breite liegen." [N part of the Pacific. Russia, Commander and Bering Isls]. | | Distribution: | Northern Pacific coastal regions of Canada, China (vagrant populations to Jiangsu), Japan (from Hokkaido N), Russia, USA (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California). | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Threatened, except population segment west of 144° W. Long, which is Endangered; IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | The type of O. californiana Lesson, 1828, was shown by Allen (1880) to actually be Zalophus. A. monteriensis Gray, 1859, is based on P. jubata Schreber, 1776. Scheffer (1958) pointed out that jubata Forster, 1775, is invalid. Reviewed by Loughlin et al. (1987). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Hall (1981), and Loughlin et al. (1987). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
jubata Forster, 1775
leonina (Pallas, 1811)
monteriensis (Gray, 1859)
stellerii (Lesson, 1828)
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