[CINC] Steller Sea Lion(s) at Ventura

[Mr Zalophus]

It makes you appreciate why there are *scientific* names for organisms.
Eh, wot !

Captain Bob (retired)
Condor Express Odd Jobs

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Kenneth A. Tatro <kensword at cox.net> wrote:

> Good info from both of these fine captains.
>
> Thanks Guys.
>
> Ken Tatro
>
> On Feb 17, 2013, at 8:41 PM, Anthony Lombardi wrote:
>
> Hopefully this rain list is getting that ticky tacky on common grammar
> mistakes as to sightings reports. Hopefully this was in good fun. but if
> not...  Maybe email that person personally instead of on the entirety of
> the rain list, that seems more fair and appropriate.  Yes the Steller sea
> lions are also called northern sea lion but that is not what is they are
> still commonly called.  Check these sites for that fact, even an
> organization that you do work with denotes Stellers as the primary name
> over the northern sea lion.
> http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/steller-sea-lion/
> http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/pinnipeds/stellersealion.htm
>
> http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/pinnipeds/steller-sea-lion/
> Just keeping it real.[image: *:) happy]
> Anthony
>
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> *From:* Lee Fleischer <captlee48 at aol.com>
> *To:* channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 17, 2013 5:50 PM
> *Subject:* [CINC] Steller Sea Lion(s) at Ventura
>
> Since we have been noting at least one of the species *Eumetopias jubatus
> *now commonly called 'northern sea lion' in the Ventura area; I'd thought
> I'd point out that Georg Wilhiem Steller would probably appreciate
> (albeit from the grave) having his name spelled correctly when we observe
> the largest of the sea lions originally described by the German botanist in
> 1741 when he sailed with the Russian explorer Vitus Bering to what we now
> know as Alaska.
>
>  So let's make it Steller; no 'a'.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  Lee Fleischer
> captlee48 at aol.com
> 805.452.4338 (cell)
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