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Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758
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Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758
Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 75.
Type Locality: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali Americae, Europae." (= northern seas of Europe and America).
Vernacular Names: Narwhal.
Synonyms: Monodon microcephalus (Lacépède 1804); Monodon narhval Blumenbach 1788; Monodon vulgaris (Lacépède 1804).
Distribution: Arctic Ocean; rarely in Beaufort, Bering, Chuckchi and East Siberian Seas; occasional strays as far south as Newfoundland, the Netherlands, British Isles and Japan.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.
Discussion: Reviewed by Reeves and Tracey (1980, Mammalian Species, 127) and Hay and Mansfield (1989).
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 735, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Linnaeus
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
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- Cetacea
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- Monodontidae
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- Monodon
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- monoceros
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- Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Reeves, R. R., and S. Tracey. 1980. Monodon monoceros. Mammalian Species, 127: 1 - 7.
- Hay, K. A., and A. W. Mansfield. 1989. Narwhal- - Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758. Pp. 145 - 177, in Handbook of marine mammals: River dolphins and the larger toothed whales (S. H. Ridgway and R. Harrison, eds.). Academic Press, London, 4: 1 - 442.