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    Species Accepted

    Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)

    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 2 countries or islands

      2 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      BelgiumNo
      BelgiumNoUnknown
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      126 results
      Baleia-de-bossa Portuguese
      Baleia-jubarte Portuguese
      Balena gungaçe Albanian
      Ballena jorobada Spanish
      Bockelwal Luxembourgish
      Boggelrugwalvis Afrikaans
      Buckelwal German
      Bultrugwalvis Dutch
      Bunch English
      Długopłetwiec oceaniczny Polish

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
      7 results
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      21 results
      Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds. (1999). The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals.
      Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
      Borowski, G. H. (1781). Gemeinnüzzige Naturschichte des Tierreichs. G. L. Lange, Berlin and Stralsund. 2: 1-196.
      Davorin Tome
      Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL).
      Jackson, J. A., Steel, D. J., Beerli, P., Congdon, B. C., Olavarria, C., Leslie, M. S., Pomilla, C., Rosenbaum, H. & Baker, C. S. (2014) Global diversity and oceanic divergence of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences, 281, 2013 - 3222. https: // doi. org / 10.1098 / rspb. 2013.3222
      Gray, J. E. (1850) Catalogue of the Specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum Part I. Cetacea. The Trustees, British Museum, London, 50 pp.
      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.

      Citation

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