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Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Groenlandico" (= Greenland Sea).
DISTRIBUTION: Northern Hemisphere: arctic waters. Strays have occured in Japan, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Massachusetts.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Leatherwood (1985).
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 page 349, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0744FFA8FFDAFFA8E742F9543B21FFEF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/FB7D87D0FFDAFFA8E7AFFD713FCEFAF2 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205119874 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193271/taxon/FB7D87D0FFDAFFA8E7AFFD713FCEFAF2.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balaenidae
- Genus
- Balaena
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- mysticetus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993