Balaenoptera musculus (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 : 350

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352970

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154868

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scientific name

Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76.

TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, Firth of Forth ("Habitat in mari Scotico") .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters.

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

SYNONYMS: brevicauda, gigas, indica , intermedia , major , sibbaldii , sibbaldius, sulfureus .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Yochem and Leatherwood (1985). Includes subspecies B. m. brevicauda Ichihara, 1966 (not Zemsky and Boronin, 1964, which is a nomen nudum (Rice, 1977:6).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Balaenopteridae

Genus

Balaenoptera

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