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Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali Americae, Europae." (= northern seas of Europe and America).
DISTRIBUTION: Arctic Ocean; rarely in Beaufort, Chuckchi and East Siberian Seas; occasional strays as far south as the Newfoundland, the Netherlands, British Isles and Japan.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.
SYNONYMS: microcephalus, monodon, narhval, vulgaris.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Tracey (1980, Mammalian Species, 127) and Hay and Mansfield (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 pages 357-358, 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/FB7D87D0FFD2FFA1E7B5F0983990FE79 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205119895 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193271/taxon/FB7D87D0FFD2FFA1E7B5F0983990FE79.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Monodontidae
- Genus
- Monodon
- Species
- monoceros
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993