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Delphinapterus leucas
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Description
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776). Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, 3(1):85 [footnote].
TYPE LOCALITY: NE Siberia, "die im Obischen Meerbusen" (= mouth of Ob River).
DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar in Arctic seas; Okhotsk and Bering Seas; northern Gulf of Alaska (Cook Inlet); Gulf of St. Lawrence: arctic to cold-temperate waters; occasionally strays south to Honshu, Japan; France; and Massachusetts, USA.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.
SYNONYMS: albicans, beluga, catodon, dorofeevi, marisalbi.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Kleinenberg et al. (1969), T. G. Smith et al. (1990), Stewart and Stewart (1989, Mammalian Species, 336) and Brodie (1989).
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 357, 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://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/FB7D87D0FFD2FFA0E7B5FE3E3E56F70B (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205119893 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193271/taxon/FB7D87D0FFD2FFA0E7B5FE3E3E56F70B.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Monodontidae
- Genus
- Delphinapterus
- Species
- leucas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993