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Phocarctos hookeri (New Zealand Sealion; New Zealand sea lion; Hooker's sea lion; Auckland sea lion)

Synonyms: Arctocephalus caninus; Arctocephalus hookeri; Eumetopias hookeri; Neophoca hookeri

Wikipedia Abstract

The New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri), also known as Hooker's sea lion, and whakahao in Māori, is a species of sea lion that primarily breeds on New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland and Campbell islands and to some extent around the coast of New Zealand's South and Stewart islands. The New Zealand sea lion numbers around 10,000 and is perhaps the world's rarest sea lion species. They are the only species of the genus Phocarctos.
View Wikipedia Record: Phocarctos hookeri

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Phocarctos hookeri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.35
EDGE Score: 3.51
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Gestation [2]  1 year
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  23 years
Migration [1]  Intraoceanic
Snout to Vent Length [4]  7.413 feet (226 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Weaning [2]  7 months 3 days
Adult Weight [2]  413.545 lbs (187.58 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  15.432 lbs (7.00 kg)
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  5 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  6 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Macquarie Island Nature Reserve Ia 233540 Tasmania, Australia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Phocarctos hookeri (New Zealand Sealion)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Antarctophthirus microchir[6]
Corynosoma australe[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5"Diet of New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) at the Auckland Islands", Simon Childerhouse, Bruce Dix and Nick Gales, Wildlife Research 28(3) 291 - 298 (2001)
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0