Balaenoptera musculus
Description
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Blue Whale
Balaena musculus Linnaeus, 1758 p.76; Type locality- Fifth of Forth, Scotland.
Physalus sibbaldii Gray, 1847 p.92; Type locality- Coast of Yorkshire, England.
Sibbalius sulfureus Cope, 1869 p.20; Type locality- North Atlantic, US; True, 1884 p.591.
Balaenoptera musculus: Kuroda, 1938 p.11; Won, 1958 p.433; Won, 1967 p.79; Won, 1968 p.236; Kim et al., 2000 p.52; Kim, 2004 p.217.
Range: Balaenoptera musculus has rarely been encountered in the East Sea (Fig. 78). Whalers harvested a total of 20 blue whales in the waters of Korea during 1911 to 1944 (Park 1987). There has been no record of this whale in Korean waters since 1944.
Remarks: The Northern Hemisphere stock (except the Indian Ocean stock) is identified under B. m. musculus (Reilly et al. 2008).
Conservation status: The South Korean government designated this species a Protected Marine Species in 2007. The North Korean Red Data Book listed this species as ‘Rare.’ CITES has protected B. musculus as an Appendix I species, and the IUCN designated this whale as ‘Endangered’.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Balaenoptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- musculus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Fol. 1. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp. [in Latin]
- Gray, J. E. (1847) On the finner whales, with the description of a new species. Proceeding of the Zoological Society of London, 1847, 88 - 96.
- Cope, E. D. (1869) On the cetaceans of the western Coast of North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 21, 13 - 63.
- True, F. W. (1884 [1885]) A provisional list of the mammals of North and Central America, and the West Indian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 7, 587 - 611.
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Won, P. H. (1958) A hand list of Korean mammals. Bulletin of Kyung-Hee University, 1, 427 - 460.
- Won, P. H. (1967) Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna and flora of Korea. Fol. 7. Mammals. Ministry of Education, Seoul, 663 pp. [in Korean]
- Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
- 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]
- Reilly, S. B., Bannister, J. L., Best, P. B., Brown, M., Brownell Jr., R. L., Butterworth, D. S., Clapham, P. J., Cooke, J., Donovan, G. P., Urban, J. & Zerbini, A. Z. (2008) Balaenoptera musculus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. Avaialbe from: http: // www. iucnredlist. org / (accessed 27 September 2015) https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2008. RLTS. T 2477 A 9447146. en