| New Zealand sea lion | |
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| Male | |
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| Female with pup | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Otariidae |
| Subfamily: | Otariinae |
| Genus: | Phocarctos Peters, 1866 |
| Species: | P. hookeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Phocarctos hookeri (Gray, 1844)
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| New Zealand sea lion range | |
The New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri), once known as Hooker's sea lion, and as pakake (for both male and female) or whakahao (male) and kake (female) in Māori,[2] is a species of sea lion that is endemic to New Zealand and primarily breeds on New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland and Campbell islands, and have in recent years been slowly breeding and recolonising around the coast of New Zealand's South and Stewart islands.[3] The New Zealand sea lion numbers around 12,000 and is one of the world's rarest sea lion species.[4] They are the only species of the genus Phocarctos.
- ^ Chilvers, B.L. (2015). "Phocarctos hookeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T17026A1306343. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T17026A1306343.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Scott-Fyfe, Rauhina. Mātauranga Māori Project on the New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri) (PDF) (Report). Department of Conservation and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ Frans, Veronica F.; Augé, Amélie A.; Fyfe, Jim; Zhang, Yuqian; McNally, Nathan; Edelhoff, Hendrik; Balkenhol, Niko; Engler, Jan O. (2022). "Integrated SDM database: Enhancing the relevance and utility of species distribution models in conservation management". Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13 (1): 243–261. Bibcode:2022MEcEv..13..243F. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13736. ISSN 2041-210X. S2CID 243893898.
- ^ "New Zealand sea lion / rāpoka / whakahao". Department of Conservation. Retrieved 21 November 2021.