SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE SPECIES 



Phylum: Vertebrata (animals with a backbone) 



Class: Mammalia (warm blooded, milk-giving animals) 

 Order: Carnivora (flesh eaters) 



Suborder: Fissipedia (animals with feet) 

 Family; Mustelidae (weasel group) 

 Enhydra lutris (SEA OTTER) 

 Suborder; Pinnipedia (animals with flippers) 

 Family; Otariidae (eared seals) 



Callorhinus ursinus (NORTHERN FUR SEAL) 

 Arctocephalus townsendi (GUADALUPE FUR SEAL) 

 Eumetopias jubata (STELLER SEA-LION) 

 Zalophus calif ornianus (CALIFORNIA SEA- LION) 

 Family; Odobenidae 



Odobenus rosmarus divergens (PACIFIC WALRUS) 

 Family: Phocidae (earless seals) 

 Phoca vitulina (HARBOR SEAL) 

 Phoca fasciata (RIBBON SEAL) 

 Phoca hispida (RINGED SEAL) 

 Erignathus barbatus (BEARDED SEAL) 

 Monachus schauinslandi (HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL) 

 Mirounga angustirostris (NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL) 



