Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828
Description
Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 —Sei Whale
Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 p.342; Type locality- Germany; Kuroda, 1938 p.10; Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.715; Kim et al., 2000 p.56; Kim, 2004 p.220.
Range: Despite the species being a cosmopolitan species with wide distribution, only few observations of B. borealis have recorded in the waters of Korea (Fig. 76). Since 1911, fishermen caught only seven Sei whales (three in 1968) in the waters near Korea (Park 1987).
Remarks: Although marine biologists placed the Northern Hemisphere stock in the subspecies B. b. borealis, this stock might represent two or three different lineages (eastern and western or eastern, central and western stocks; Reeves & Kenney 2003).
Conservation status: The South Korean government made the Sei whale a Protected Marine Species in 2007. This species also occurs on CITES Appendix I and in the IUCN Red List as ‘Endangered’. Based on our information, North Korea is not involved in the conservation of this whale.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Balaenoptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesson
- Species
- borealis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Lesson, R. P. (1828) Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des mammiferes et des oiseaux decoverts depuis 1788 jusqu'a nos jours. Fol. 10. Oiseaux et mammiferes. Chez Baudouin freres, Paris, 456 pp. [in French]
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Ellerman, J. R. & Morrison-Scott, T. C. S. (1951) Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
- Kim, Z. G., Lee, J. U., Baik, C. I., Sohn, H. S., Park, C. S., Lee, D. W., Choi, K. H., Hong, B. Q., Kim, S. T., Park, J. H., Cho, Y. M., Cha, H. K. & Hwang, K. S. (2000) Whales and Dolphins off Korean Peninsula. National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Busan, 137 pp. [in Korean]
- Kim, Z. G. (2004) Suborder Pinnipedia & Order Cetacea. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 184 - 254. [in Korean]
- Park, G. B. (1987) Whaling history of Korea. Taehwa Press, Seoul, Korea, 594 pp. [in Korean]
- Reeves, R. R. & Kenney, R. D. (2003) Baleen Whales: Right Whales and Allies. In: Feldhamer, G. A., Thompson, B. C. & Chapman, J. A. (Eds.), Wild Mammals of North America: Biology, Management, and Conservation. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 425 - 463.