Balaenoptera musculus
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76. TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, Firth of Forth ("Habitat in mari Scotico"). DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered. SYNONYMS: brevicauda, gigas...
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Smithsonian Institution Press
1993
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154868 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/FB7D87D0FFDBFFA9E645FDB23959F9DF |
Summary: | Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76. TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, Firth of Forth ("Habitat in mari Scotico"). DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered. SYNONYMS: brevicauda, gigas, indica, intermedia, major, sibbaldii, sibbaldius, sulfureus. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Yochem and Leatherwood (1985). Includes subspecies B. m. brevicauda Ichihara, 1966 (not Zemsky and Boronin, 1964, which is a nomen nudum (Rice, 1977:6). 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 350, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 |
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