Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus 1758)
- Dataset
- Order Cetacea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Balaenopteridae
- genus
- Balaenoptera
- species
- Balaenoptera musculus
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U. S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered.
discussion
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).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, Firth of Forth (" Habitat in mari Scotico ").
synonymic_list
SYNONYMS: brevicauda, gigas, indica, intermedia, major, sibbaldii, sibbaldius, sulfureus.