Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Order Cetacea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Monodontidae
- genus
- Monodon
- species
- Monodon monoceros
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.
discussion
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Tracey (1980, Mammalian Species, 127) and Hay and Mansfield (1989).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Arctic Ocean; rarely in Beaufort, Chuckchi and East Siberian Seas; occasional strays as far south as the Newfoundland, the Netherlands, British Isles and Japan.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: " Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali Americae, Europae. " (= northern seas of Europe and America).
synonymic_list
SYNONYMS: microcephalus, monodon, narhval, vulgaris.
Name
- Homonyms
- Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758