sea lion

Summary

sea lion is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.073% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,909 views/month, #143 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• sea lion's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• sea lion is classified at the rank of subfamily^[4].
• sea lion is classified within Otariidae^[5].
• Under binomial nomenclature, sea lion is Otariinae^[6].
• sea lion is a type of Otariidae^[7].
• sea lion's Commons category is recorded as Otariinae^[8].
• sea lion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Otariinae^[9].
• sea lion's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• sea lion's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02077923-n^[11].

Body

Classification

sea lion's scientific name is Otariinae^[6]. It is classified at the rank of subfamily^[4]. It belongs to the parent taxon Otariidae^[5].

Identifiers

sea lion's ITIS TSN is recorded as 655839^[12].

Discovery and Description

Things named for sea lion include sealioning^[13], founded in 2014^[14] and HSwMS Sjölejonet^[15], a submarine^[16].

Why It Matters

sea lion ranks in the top 0.073% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,909 views/month, #143 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[17] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[18]

Entities named for it include sealioning^[13], founded in 2014^[14] and HSwMS Sjölejonet^[15], a submarine^[16].