Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus 1758
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75. TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Groenlandico" (= Greenland Sea). DISTRIBUTION: Northern Hemisphere: arctic waters. Strays have occured in Japan, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Massachusetts. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA -...
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Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/7154852 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154852 |
Summary: | Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75. TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Groenlandico" (= Greenland Sea). DISTRIBUTION: Northern Hemisphere: arctic waters. Strays have occured in Japan, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Massachusetts. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Leatherwood (1985). Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 349, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7352970 |
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