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    Species Accepted

    Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      71 results
      Baleia-azul Portuguese
      Ballena azul Spanish
      Blauwal German
      Blue Whale English
      Blåhval Danish
      Morfil Asgellog Glas Welsh
      Morfilod Asgellog Glas Welsh
      Northern Indian Ocean Blue Whale English
      Northern Indian Ocean population English
      Ostende whale English

      Treatments

      6 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      12 results
      Würsig, Bernd, J. G. M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs, eds. (2018). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd Edition.
      Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole. (2000). Common Names of Mammals of the World.
      Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (2005). Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd Ed., Vol. 1.
      Rice, Dale W. (1998). Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, No. 4.
      Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
      Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (1993). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd Ed., 3rd Printing.
      Syst. Nat., 10th ed. vol.1 p.76
      Cope, E. D. (1869) On the cetaceans of the western Coast of North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 21, 13 - 63.
      Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. (1987). Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, No. 166.
      Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds. (1999). The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals.

      Citation

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