Japanese sea lion, Zalophus japonicus (Peters, 1866), is an extinct species of sea lion in the genus Zalophus of the family Eurasidae. Before 2003, Japanese sea lions were considered a subspecies of the California sea lion, but later it was pointed out that Japanese sea lions and California sea lion...
Californian Sea Lion (scientific name: Zalophus californianus), foreign name California Sea Lion, no subspecies.The Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus) and the Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus japonica) were once subspecies of the California sea lion, but were classified as separate species in 2007.T...
The scientific name of the Australian sea lion is Neophoca cinerea, and its foreign name is Australian sealion. It is a sea lion that only lives on the southern and western coasts of Australia. It is very similar to other sea lions and fur seals in the family Neophocidae.The Australian sea lion main...
This is a Northern fur sea lion (scientific name: Arctocephalus tropicalis) first described by John Edward Gray in 1872.This is a Northern fur sea lion. Male sea lions will fight fiercely during the breeding season, and there will be casualties. A family consists of a male and 6-8 females. They give...
The North American fur sea lion (Arctocephalus townsendi) is the only sea lion living in the Northern Hemisphere. Due to excessive hunting at the end of the 19th century, only a few dozen were left, and by the 1990s, the number had recovered to about 10,000.The North American fur sea lion feeds on f...
The scientific name of New Zealand sea lion is Phocarctos hookeri, also known as Hooker's sea lion. It feeds on small fish such as octopus and flounder, and also eats crabs and penguins. It likes to live in groups. It gives birth in late December or early January. The birthing process is short,...
The scientific name of the Hoo Island fur seal is Arctocephalus philippii. It likes to stand upside down in the water for a long time, with its head down and its flippers raised out of the water and swinging slowly. It breeds on the Juan-Fernandez Islands in Chile. It gives birth in June. It is doci...
The scientific name of the African fur seal is Arctocephalus pusillus, and its foreign name is South African and Australian Fur Seal. There are two subspecies.African fur sea lions are gentle and like to gather in groups. They generally do not have a fixed habitat except during the breeding season....
New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) mainly feed on squid, octopus and rod fish, and also eat penguins. They mostly hunt on the surface at night, and sometimes hunt on octopus on the seabed during the day. They can drag large fish such as perch out of the water and bite them off and swallo...
The Antarctic fur seal (scientific name: Arctocephalus gazella) is called Kerguelen Fur seal. Its scientific name comes from the first German ship to capture it, SMS Gazelle. Captain Cook mentioned that there were a large number of fur seals living on South Georgia Island after exploring it in 1775....
Galapagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis): Its Greek name, Bear Headed, means "bear head", which is related to its short, pointed muzzle and small, button-shaped nose. This marine mammal is the ancestor of similar terrestrial carnivores.Galapagos fur seals do not have a fixed living...
Weddell seal (Latin name: Leptonychotes weddellii), also known as Weddell seal, Weddell seal or Weddell seal, is the only species of Weddell seal genus under the seal family, named by a British Antarctic navigator James Weddell.Weddell seals are an extremely ancient creature, so they are called &quo...
The scientific name of the Mediterranean monk seal is Monachus monachus, and its foreign name is Mediterranean monk seal. It is an ancient and rare seal. Its head is very round and densely covered with short hair, which looks like a monk's head, hence the name. It is the rarest seal in the world...
The scientific name of the Southern elephant seal is Mirounga leonina, and its foreign name is Southern elephant-seal. It is the largest seal on earth, the largest pinniped in history, and even the largest carnivore. It is divided into three subspecies: South American subspecies (M.l falclandicus),...
The scientific name of the Northern elephant seal is Mirounga angustirostris, and its foreign name is Northern elephant-seal. It is a large seal-like animal.The Northern elephant seal has large, round, black eyes. The width of the eyes shows that they mainly hunt by vision. Like other seals, norther...
Sawtooth seals are called Lobodon carcinophagus in scientific name and Crabeater seal in foreign language. They are the most numerous seals in the world.Sawtooth seals feed on krill. It is an illusion to call them crab-eating seals because there are very few crabs in Antarctica, which are not enough...
Leopard seal (scientific name: Hydrurga leptonyx) is also known as leopard seal in foreign languages. There are no subspecies.Leopard seals are solitary animals that mate and raise their young in groups. Compared with other pinnipeds, they prefer warm-blooded animals. Because it moves slowly on land...
Grey seal (scientific name: Halichoerus grypus) is a large seal in the family Phocidae and the only member of the genus Halichoerus. They also have another name - Atlantic grey seal.Grey seals feed on fish such as salmon, cod, herring, and flounder, as well as cephalopods and arthropods. The daily f...
Hooded seal (scientific name: Cystophora cristata) is also known as Hooded seal in foreign languages. There are no subspecies.Among the 19 species of seals, the hooded seal is the least known pinniped. In the past, people always mistakenly thought it was a whale (whales and pinnipeds are two distinc...
The scientific name of the harbor seal is Phoca vitulina (Linnaeus, 1758), and the foreign name is Common seal. It is a seal distributed in the temperate and polar waters of the Northern Hemisphere.The harbor seal lives in groups, but the number of its groups is not as large as other seals. When not...
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