Eubalaena japonica ...

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Balaenidae; Eubalaena; Eubalaena japonica; Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Antarc*; Balaena japonica; Eubalaena glacialis; North Pacific right whale; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571345; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.4571345

Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818) —North Pacific Right Whale Balaena japonica Lacépède, 1818 p.469; Type locality- Japan; True, 1884 p.591. B. antarcitca antarcitca: Temminck & Schlegel in Siebold, 1844 p.18. B. sieboldii Gray, 1864 p.349; Type locality- coast of Japan and northwest coast of North America. B. australis: Aoki, 1913 p.333. B. glacialis sieboldii: Kuroda, 1938 p.9. Eubalaena glacialis: Kim et al., 2000 p.64; Kim, 2004 p.215. Range: In the North Pacific, right whales occur during the summer in the Sea of Okhotsk, the southeastern Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands, and the northern Gulf of Alaska (Shirihai & Jarrett 2006). During the winter, they occur (at least, historically) southward to the East Sea (Brownell et al. 2001). In 1911 and the 1960s, fishermen caught two individuals in the waters of Korea (Park 1987). No record existed after 1974 (Park 1987), until February 2015, when one whale became tangled in a net of a mussel farm in Namhae, on the southern coast. This migratory whale ... : Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on pages 114-115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198 ...