Balaena mysticetus 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 : 349

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154852
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scientific name	Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
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Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Groenlandico" (= Greenland Sea) .

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Hemisphere: arctic waters. Strays have occured in Japan, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Massachusetts.

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

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Leatherwood (1985).

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Taxonomy

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

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