Balaena glacialis Muller, 1776

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 290-304 : 303

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scientific name	Balaena glacialis Muller, 1776
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Balaena glacialis Muller, 1776 View in CoL . Zool. Danicae Prodr., p. 7.

TYPE LOCALITY: Norway, Finnmark, Nord Kapp (vicinity of North Cape) .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide in temperate and subarctic seas.

COMMENT: Formerly considered to be three separate species, glacialis , australis , and japonicus; see Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana Zool., 39(49):547-565. Includes sieboldi; see Tomilin, 1957, [Mamm. U.S. S.R., Adjac. Count.], 9:62; Rice, 1977. Gromov and Baranova, 1981:231, placed this species in Eubalaena .

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Eubalaena spp. and U.S. ESA - Endangered as B. glacialis .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301411008001001001.