Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Otaria byronia
South American sea lion
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Carnivora
Suborder
Caniformia
Family
Otariidae
Genus
Otaria
Species
byronia
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Otaria flavescens Shaw, 1800 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Vagrant
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Otaria byronia", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19910. Accessed 4 November 2026.