Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)

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 : 349

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7352970
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154858
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scientific name	Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)
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Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776) View in CoL . Zool. Danicae Prodr., p. 7.

TYPE LOCALITY: None given, listed as Norway, Finnmark, Nord Kapp (vicinity of North Cape) by Eschricht and Reinhardt (1861) .

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Hemisphere: temperate to tropical waters; one stray record from Hawaii (Scarff, 1986).

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

SYNONYMS: biscayensis , japonica , nordcaper , sieboldi.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Cummings (1985b); see Hershkovitz (1961b).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Balaenidae
Genus	Eubalaena

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