Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 350

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154870
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scientific name	Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Europeao", restricted to Norway, near Svalbard, Spitsbergen Sea by Thomas (1911a) .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: antiquorum , boops , gibbar , patachonica , velifera .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Gambell (1985b).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Balaenopteridae
Genus	Balaenoptera

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