Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828

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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Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828
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Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 View in CoL . Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Mamm. Oiseaux, 1:342.

TYPE LOCALITY: Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Lubeck Bay, near Gromitz (see Rudolphi, 1822) .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: cold-temperate to tropical waters. Distributional records sometimes confused with B. edeni .

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

SYNONYMS: rostrata , schlegellii.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Gambell (1985a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Balaenopteridae

Genus

Balaenoptera

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