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WoRMS taxon details
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 137086
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Balaena Linnaeus, 1758 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Balaena mysticetus arctica Schlegel, 1841 (synonym)
Balaena mysticetus borealis Lesson, 1828 (synonym)
Balaena mysticetus groenlandica Kerr, 1792 (synonym)
Balaena mysticetus pitlekajensis Malm, 1883 (synonym)
Balaena mysticetus roysii Dall, 1874 (synonym)
Baloena mysticetus Robineau, 1989 (Synonym)
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original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 page(s): 75 [details]
basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [details]
additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species
of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]
additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]
additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]
additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
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Vernacular Names | | |
Direct child taxa [show all] | | Subspecies Balaena mysticetus antarcticus Schlegel, 1841 accepted as Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822)
Subspecies Balaena mysticetus arctica Schlegel, 1841 accepted as Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Balaena mysticetus borealis Lesson, 1828 accepted as Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Balaena mysticetus groenlandica Kerr, 1792 accepted as Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Balaena mysticetus islandica Kerr, 1792 accepted as Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)
Subspecies Balaena mysticetus major Kerr, 1792 accepted as Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Balaena mysticetus pitlekajensis Malm, 1883 accepted as Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Balaena mysticetus roysii Dall, 1874 accepted as Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Arctic Ocean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (364 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (590 nucleotides; 184 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Distribution: Davis Strait and Hudson Bay [details]
Distribution: Subarctic area [details]
Habitat: in pack ice regions [details]
IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Okhotsk Sea bowhead whale : Endangered (EN) [details]
IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Bering-Beaufort-Chukchi Sea bowhead whale : Lower Risk/conservation dependent (LR/cd) [details]
IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Svaalbard-Barents Sea bowhead whale : Critically Endangered (CR) [details]
IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]
Type: Type locality Greenland Seas. No type specimen; based on the Greenland right whale of whalers and authors. [details]
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| Images | |
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 04 & 05) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-09-08 00:51:59 |
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Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 06) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-09-08 00:52:18 |
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Balaena mysticetus added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-09-08 00:53:12 |
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Balaena mysticetus added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-09-08 00:53:27 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137086 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137086 on 2013-05-19 |
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