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Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828
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Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828
Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828, Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Mamm. Oiseaux, Vol. 1: 342.
Type Locality: Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Lubeck Bay, near Gromitz (see Rudolphi, 1822).
Vernacular Names: Sei Whale.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Balaenoptera borealis subsp. borealis Lesson 1828
Subspecies Balaenoptera borealis subsp. schlegelii Flower 1865
Distribution: Worldwide: cold-temperate to warm-temperate waters. Distributional records sometimes confused with B. edeni.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered.
Discussion: Reviewed by Gambell (1985 a). Rice (1998:75-76) separated this species into B. borealis borealis and B. borealis schlegelii Flower, 1865 (Northern Sei Whale) (Southern Sei Whale).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, pp. 723-743 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 724, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/347D58E1F49DD54E115EEC1EB4531449 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/64FAE5F0096BE6CDC00F96123E6E7671 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231535401 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Balaenoptera
- Species
- borealis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Gambell, R. 1985 a. Sei whale- - Balaenoptera borealis. Pp. 155 - 170, in Handbook of marine mammals: The sirenians and baleen whales (S. H. Ridgway and R. Harrison, eds.). Academic Press, London, 3: 1 - 362.
- Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world: Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Special Publication, 4: 1 - 230.