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SpeciesCarnivoraOtariidae
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🦭Japanese sea lion

Zalophus japonicus (Peters, 1866)

Uszanka japońska, uchatka japońska (Zalophus japonicus) – gatunek wymarłego drapieżnego ssaka z rodziny uchatkowatych (Otariidae).

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Conservation status
EXExtinct

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Key measurements
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
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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.

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

Body length
2.26 m
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Maximum lifespan
36 years
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Generation length
12 yearsestimated
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Age at maturity
4.7 years
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Gestation
335 days
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Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Omnivoreestimated
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixedestimated
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Volume l
159 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyOtariidae
  6. ›genusZalophus
  7. ›speciesZalophus japonicus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyOtariidae
  4. genusZalophus
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  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. genusZalophus
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In other languages
Japanischer Seelöwe (de), アシカ (ja), 바다사자 (ko), Uszanka japońska (pl), אריה ים יפני (he), Zalophus japonicus (fr) … and 18 more languages
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