Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76.

TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, Firth of Forth ("Habitat in mari Scotico") .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters.

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

SYNONYMS: brevicauda, gigas, indica, intermedia, major, sibbaldii, sibbaldius, sulfureus .

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).