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Eumetopias
Zalophus
Otaria
Neophoca
Phocarctos The sea lion is any of many marine mammals of the family Otariidae. Sea lions come characterized per presence of external ear pinnae or flaps, yearn front flippers, & a ability to hike in quadruplet flippers toward land. Sea lions come typically uncovered around coastal waters of the temperate to subpolar regions of both northern and southern hemispheres.

SUBORDER PINNIPEDIA Personal Otariidae Subfamily Arctocephalinae: fur seals Subfamily Otariinae Steller's Sea Lion, Eumetopias jubatus California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus South American Sea Lion, Otaria flavescens Australian Sea Lion, Neophoca cinerea New Zealand Sea Lion, Phocarctos hookeri Personal Phocidae: true seals Personal Odobenidae: Walrus

a crossed sealion from either a cross between the California sealion (Zalophus californianus) & the South Our contries sealion (Otaria byronia) has occurred. The genetically confirmed Harp seal ten Hooded seal hybrid has occurred.

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