Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878

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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Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878 View in CoL . Anat. Zool. Res., Yunnan, p. 551, pl. 44.

TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, "found its way into the Thaybyoo Choung, which runs into the Gulf of Martaban between the Sittang and Beeling Rivers, and about equidistant from each" .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters. Distributional records sometimes confused with B. borealis .

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: brydei .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Cummings (1985a). May represent more than one species (Wada and Numachi, 1991).