Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758

Description

Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali Americae, Europae." (= northern seas of Europe and America).

DISTRIBUTION: Arctic Ocean; rarely in Beaufort, Chuckchi and East Siberian Seas; occasional strays as far south as the Newfoundland, the Netherlands, British Isles and Japan.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: microcephalus, monodon, narhval, vulgaris.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Tracey (1980, Mammalian Species, 127) and Hay and Mansfield (1989).

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 357-358, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Monodontidae
Genus
Monodon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
monoceros
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993