Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 189

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13930899

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF0B87EA-AE4F-FFD9-9F4B-FCC3FA170163

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scientific name

Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

337. Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Common name: Blue Whale

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Worldwide distribution from arctic to tropical waters. In Myanmar, recorded in the Myanmar coastal waters ( Yamada et al. 2022).

Remarks: This species is listed as endangered by the IUCN.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Balaenopteridae

Genus

Balaenoptera

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