Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861) . Forh. Skand. Naturf. Offende Mode, Kopenhagen, 1860, 8:602 [1861].

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, "pä Gräsön i Roslagen"; "Benen lägo 840 fot frän hafsstranden, ungefär 12 à 15 fot öfver hafvets yta" (= Uppland, Graso Isl) .

DISTRIBUTION: North Pacific: warm temperate to arctic waters. Formerly present in the North Atlantic. Sometimes enters tropical water at the southern boundaries of its distribution; see Henderson (1990) for further details.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: gibbosus, glaucus .

COMMENTS: See Rice and Wolman (1971), Jones et al. (1984), and Wollman (1985).