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Sea lion australia🦭

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SpeciesCarnivoraOtariidae
Carnivores

🦭Australian sea lion

Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816)

Otarka australijska, uchatka australijska (Neophoca cinerea) – gatunek drapieżnego ssaka z rodziny uchatkowatych (Otariidae).

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Also called
Australian Sealion
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
189 kg
Body length
2.15 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Australian sea lion

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
189 kgrecord 300 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female105 kgSeaLifeBasev25.04SeaLifeBase populates Weight independently of Length; the two are not guaranteed to describe the same individual. Verify before publishing.

Figures vary

  • 190 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
2.15 m
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04

Figures vary

  • 2.5 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass
403 g
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
24 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 24 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
13 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
4.3 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
312 days
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 258 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
189 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Australian sea lion yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyOtariidae
  6. ›genusNeophoca
  7. ›speciesNeophoca cinerea
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyOtariidae
  4. genusNeophoca
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyOtariidae
  14. genusNeophoca
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In other languages
Australischer Seelöwe (de), Ausztráliai oroszlánfóka (hu), أسد البحر الأسترالي (ar), lleó marí australià (ca), lachtan šedý (cs), Neophoca cinerea (es) … and 19 more languages
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