Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878 . Anat. Zool. Res., Yunnan, p. 551, pl. 44.

TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, "found its way into the Thaybyoo Choung, which runs into the Gulf of Martaban between the Sittang and Beeling Rivers, and about equidistant from each" .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters. Distributional records sometimes confused with B. borealis .

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: brydei .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Cummings (1985a). May represent more than one species (Wada and Numachi, 1991).