Talk:New Zealand sea lion

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Which Hooker?

Which Hooker is the scientific name derived? Joseph Dalton Hooker seems a likely candidate, since he was on James Clark Ross' Antarctic expedition, but as the expedition's botanist, so I'm not sure. Carolina wren (talk) 06:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to the NZ Department of Conservation's Threatened Species Recovery Plan Series No.17 it was him. Hase (talk) 00:24, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of separate section on species distribution

I have moved some text relating specifically to species distribution in to a dedicated section, including the results of an analysis of ancient DNA (historical distribution). Treburrick (talk)

Edits to the Status section

This was tidied up, without deleting any existing text. Some text has been moved to other sections. Updated with the new IUCN classification.

12,000

It's the number given by NZGovernment today (2018). Good news if so, there must have been a 20% increase over past years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.11.0.22 (talk) 00:55, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]