Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 . Hist. Nat. Cetacees, p. 134.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, "pris aux environs de la rade de Cherbourg", Mancha .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: bonaerensis, davidsoni, huttoni, minimus, rostrata .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Stewart and Leatherwood (1985). Two forms have been described from SW Pacific waters (Arnold et al., 1987). May represent two or three species (Wada and Numachi, 1991).