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Balaena glacialis Muller 1776
Description
Balaena glacialis Muller, 1776. Zool. Danicae Prodr., p. 7.
TYPE LOCALITY: Norway, Finnmark, Nord Kapp (vicinity of North Cape).
DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide in temperate and subarctic seas.
COMMENT: Formerly considered to be three separate species, glacialis, australis, and japonicus; see Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana Zool., 39(49):547-565. Includes sieboldi; see Tomilin, 1957, [Mamm. U.S. S.R., Adjac. Count.], 9:62; Rice, 1977. Gromov and Baranova, 1981:231, placed this species in Eubalaena.
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Eubalaena spp. and U.S. ESA - Endangered as B. glacialis.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301411008001001001.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, pp. 290-304 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 303, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C48BD20FFBFFFB2FFEA4163CA624C0E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balaenidae
- Genus
- Balaena
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller
- Species
- glacialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaena glacialis Muller, 1776 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Tomilin, A. G. 1957. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Kitoobrazyne. (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of USSR and adjacent countries: Cetacea (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 9: 1 - 756 (in Russian).
- Rice, D. W. 1977. A list of the marine mammals of the world. Third ed. NOAA Technical Report, NMFS SSRF- 711: 1 - 15.
- Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).