🦭Japanese sea lion
Японският морски лъв (Zalophus japonicus) е изчезнал вид бозайник от семейство Ушати тюлени (Otariidae).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.
- Body mass
- 159 kg
- Body length
- 2.26 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 36 years
This animal is extinct
Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2017. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.
Everything we know about the Japanese sea lion
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass159 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Body length2.26 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan36 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length12 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity4.7 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation335 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l159 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Japanese sea lion yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyOtariidae
- ›genusZalophus
- ›speciesZalophus japonicus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyOtariidae
- genusZalophus
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyOtariidae
- genusZalophus
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