Classified as carnivores, pinnipeds are divided between earless seals and eared seals. They are eyeless, earless, and have a prehensile tongue. Monk seals are earless seals of the tribe Monachini. The earless monitor lizard is endemic to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo. It belongs to the earless owl genus "Strix". Monk seals are earless seals (true seals) of the tribe Monachini. The earless monitor lizard was described in 1878 by Franz Steindachner. Elephant seals are large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus "Mirounga". Two species of earless seals occur in California. All seal remains found represent the earless seals. Also included in the Varanoidea are the Lanthanotidae (earless monitor lizards), and the extinct Palaeovaranidae. They are the only earless seals found in tropical climates. Other than occasional vagrants, among the seals only the Phocidae, or earless seals, are represented. Pusa is a genus of the earless seals, within the family Phocidae. Phoca is a genus of the earless seals, within the family Phocidae.