Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828) . In Bory de Saint-Vincet (ed.), Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris, 13:420.

TYPE LOCALITY: "les rochers dans le voisinage de la baie San-Francisco sont ordinairement couverts de lion marins." [USA, California, San Francisco Bay] .

DISTRIBUTION: N Pacifie from near the Mexico-Guatemala border to British Columbia (Canada); Japan; Galapagos Isis (Gallo-Reynosa and Solorzano-Velasco, 1991).

STATUS: IUCN - Extinct? as Z. c. japonicus .

SYNONYMS: gillespii M'Bain, 1858; japonica Peters, 1866; lobatus Jentink, 1892; philippii Allen, 1905; wollebaeki Sivertsen, 1953 .