강치, 바다사자) [3] was an aquatic mammal that became extinct in the 1970s It is also known as a black sea lion It was considered to be a subspecies of the related california sea lion (z
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They inhabited the western north pacific and its marginal seas including the sea of okhotsk and the sea.
Zalophus japonicus peters, 1866:668 japanese sea lion, black sea lion taxonomy & nomenclature synonym/s
Zalophus californianus japonicus peters, 1866:668 Zalophus lobatus jentink, 1892 conservation status extinct last record 1951 (fisher & blomberg, 2012) iucn redlist status Japanese sea lion was considered to be a subspecies of californian sea lion but in 2003 it was proven that this aquatic mammal was a unique species of sea lion