Balaenoptera musculus

• 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 musculus; Blue whale; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571364; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A0BE3B647FFFCAFF4FFBAFFC175138

Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Blue Whale Balaena musculus Linnaeus, 1758 p.76; Type locality- Fifth of Forth, Scotland. Physalus sibbaldii Gray, 1847 p.92; Type locality- Coast of Yorkshire, England. Sibbalius sulfureus Cope, 1869 p.20; Type locality- North Atlantic, US; True, 1884 p.591. Balaenoptera musculus : Kuroda, 1938 p.11; Won, 1958 p.433; Won, 1967 p.79; Won, 1968 p.236; Kim et al ., 2000 p.52; Kim, 2004 p.217. Range: Balaenoptera musculus has rarely been encountered in the East Sea (Fig. 78). Whalers harvested a total of 20 blue whales in the waters of Korea during 1911 to 1944 (Park 1987). There has been no record of this whale in Korean waters since 1944. Remarks: The Northern Hemisphere stock (except the Indian Ocean stock) is identified under B. m. musculus (Reilly et al. 2008). Conservation status: The South Korean government designated this species a Protected Marine Species in 2007. The North Korean Red Data Book listed this species as ‘Rare.’ CITES has protected B. musculus as an Appendix I species, and the IUCN designated this whale as ‘Endangered’. 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 page 118, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198