Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Balaenopteridae; Balaenoptera; Balaenoptera borealis; Sei Whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571356; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A0BE3B647EFFCAFF4FFF0EFC1E560F

Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 —Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 p.342; Type locality- Germany; Kuroda, 1938 p.10; Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.715; Kim et al ., 2000 p.56; Kim, 2004 p.220. Range: Despite the species being a cosmopolitan species with wide distribution, only few observations of B . borealis have recorded in the waters of Korea (Fig. 76). Since 1911, fishermen caught only seven Sei whales (three in 1968) in the waters near Korea (Park 1987). Remarks: Although marine biologists placed the Northern Hemisphere stock in the subspecies B. b. borealis , this stock might represent two or three different lineages (eastern and western or eastern, central and western stocks; Reeves & Kenney 2003). Conservation status: The South Korean government made the Sei whale a Protected Marine Species in 2007. This species also occurs on CITES Appendix I and in the IUCN Red List as ‘Endangered’. Based on our information, North Korea is not involved in the conservation of this 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 117-118, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198