Editing Neophoca

{{Short description|Genus of carnivores}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Sea lion and pup in Seal Bay - Kangaroo Island.jpg
| image_caption = [[Australian sea lion|''N. cinerea'']], adult and pup
| taxon = Neophoca
| authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]] 1866
| type_species = ''Arctocephalus lobatus''
| type_species_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]] 1828
}}

'''''Neophoca''''' is a genus of the family [[Otariidae]] ([[sea lion]]s and [[fur seal]]s) of order [[Carnivora]]. It is combined by some taxonomists with the genus ''[[Phocarctos]]'', the (extant) New Zealand sea lion.<ref>{{citation |editor1=Don E. Wilson |editor2=DeeAnn M. Reeder |year=2005 |title=Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference |edition=3rd |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |url=http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14001012}}</ref> Only one species survives:

*''[[Australian sea lion|N. cinerea]]'': Australian sea lion. Most subpopulations are small and genetically isolated.<ref>{{Cite iucn|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14549/45228341|title=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|access-date=2018-10-28}}</ref>

Extinct species:
*''[[Pleistocene New Zealand sea lion|N. palatina]]'', known from a skull found in New Zealand

==References==
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[[Category:Neophoca| ]]
[[Category:Carnivoran genera]]
[[Category:Mammal genera with one living species]]
[[Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray]]


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