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Megaptera novaeangliae
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Description
340. Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Common name: Humpback Whale
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Worldwide distribution from cold-temperate to tropical waters. In Myanmar, recorded in the offshore waters of Bay of Bengal (Parnum 2019).
Notes
Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on pages 189-190, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Borowski
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Megaptera
- Species
- novaeangliae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) sec. Thu, Lwin & Quan, 2024
References
- Parnum, B. (2019). Occurrence of Marine Fauna in Offshore Northwest Myanmar (Project No. 0435170). ERM, https: // www. myanmarresponsiblebusiness. org / pdf / 2019 - Myanmar-MFO-Study-Report. pdf.