Eschrichtius robustus

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Eschrichtiidae; Eschrichtius; Eschrichtius robustus; Chukchi; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329605; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3556692332C1B85504A3F0A68D4DE5E3

Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg 1860) [Balaenoptera] robusta Lilljeborg 1860, Forh. Skand. Naturf. Ottende Mode, Kopenhagen, 1860 (8): 602. Type Locality: Sweden, "på Gräsön i Roslagen"; "Benen lägo 840 fot frän hafsstranden, ungefär 12 à 15 fot öfver hafvets yta" (= Uppland, Graso Isl). Vernacular Names: Gray Whale. Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus (Erxleben 1777); Eschrichtius glaucus (Cope 1868). Distribution: North Pacific: warm temperate to arctic waters. Formerly present in the North Atlantic. Sometimes enters tropical water at the southern boundaries of its distribution; see Henderson (1990) for further details. The eastern and western North Pacific populations are separate. The eastern population is distributed from Baja California and the adjacent coast of Mexico to the Bering and Chukchi Seas. The western population is distributed from the East China Sea to the Sea of Okhotsk. Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered, except for Eastern North Pacific Ocean--coastal and Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas populations, which are listed as Delisted Taxa (recovered); IUCN – Critically Endangered (Northwest Pacific (Asian) stock), otherwise Lower Risk (cd). Discussion: See Rice and Wolman (1971), Jones et al. (1984), and Wolman (1985). Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, pp. 723-743 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 725, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519