Published December 31, 1993
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Balaenoptera musculus
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Description
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76.
TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, Firth of Forth ("Habitat in mari Scotico").
DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered.
SYNONYMS: brevicauda, gigas, indica, intermedia, major, sibbaldii, sibbaldius, sulfureus.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Yochem and Leatherwood (1985). Includes subspecies B. m. brevicauda Ichihara, 1966 (not Zemsky and Boronin, 1964, which is a nomen nudum (Rice, 1977:6).
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 350, 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/FB7D87D0FFDBFFA9E645FDB23959F9DF (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205119859 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193271/taxon/FB7D87D0FFDBFFA9E645FDB23959F9DF.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Balaenoptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- musculus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993