Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)

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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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154874

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scientific name

Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
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Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) View in CoL . Gemein. Naturgesch. Thier., 2(1):21.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "de la nouvelle Angleterre " (= coast of New England) .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: cold-temperate to tropical waters.

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

SYNONYMS: braziliensis , burmeisteri, lalandii , longimana , longipinna , nodosa , versabilis .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Winn and Reichley (1985).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Balaenopteridae

Genus

Megaptera

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