Eumetopias jubatus
Steller Sea Lion
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180625 via WoRMS external link
The Steller sea lion, also known as Steller's sea lion or the northern sea lion, is a large, near-threatened species of sea lion, predominantly found in the coastal marine habitats of the northeast Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Northwest regions of North America, from north-central California to Oregon, Washington and…W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1990 and 2004.R
- 3
- observations
- 3
- records
- 3
- sampling events
- 1990–2004
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 3.2 m
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Eumetopias jubatus Steller Sea Lion · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:254999")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:254999'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 3.2 m max
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Eumetopias
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Eumetopias jubatus · source
- Photo · Rolf Ream · Public domain · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Steller sea lion” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373367771
- Length · worms_attribute
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Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗