Monodon monoceros 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 : 357-358

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Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali Americae, Europae." (= northern seas of Europe and America) .

DISTRIBUTION: Arctic Ocean; rarely in Beaufort, Chuckchi and East Siberian Seas; occasional strays as far south as the Newfoundland, the Netherlands, British Isles and Japan.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: microcephalus , monodon , narhval, vulgaris .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Tracey (1980, Mammalian Species, 127) and Hay and Mansfield (1989).