Delphinapterus leucas ...

• 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; Monodontidae; Delphinapterus; Delphinapterus leucas; Catodon; Okhotsk; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; ob river; White whale; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571400; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.4571400

Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) —Beluga, white whale Delphinus leucas Pallas, 1776 p.85; Type locality- Mouth of Ob River, Northeast Siberia. Delphinapterus catodon: True, 1884 p.590. Delphinapterus leucas: Kuroda, 1938 p.14; Kim et al., 2000 p.74; Kim, 2004 p.231. Range: The beluga is common in the Sea of Okhotsk but very rare in the waters of Korea. Since it was observed migrating along the southeastern coast near Busan (southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula) in August of 1997, the range is expected to reach the southern waters of the East Sea (Kim 2004; Fig. 90). Remarks: The genetic structure of the mtDNA control region of the beluga whale in the Russian Far East down into the East Sea indicated a high degree of philopatry (Meschersky et al. 2013). Some populations became genetically isolated from those of the Sea of Okhotsk; whereas, they share a common gene pool (Meschersky et al. 2013). Allelic frequencies at nine microsatellite loci had a mean genetic diversity of 0.69 that increased from ... : 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 134-135, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198 ...