Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 724

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DOI

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scientific name

Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828
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Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828 View in CoL

Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828 View in CoL , Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Mamm. Oiseaux, Vol. 1: 342.

Type Locality: Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Lubeck Bay, near Gromitz (see Rudolphi, 1822).

Vernacular Names: Sei Whale.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Balaenoptera borealis subsp. borealis Lesson 1828

Subspecies Balaenoptera borealis subsp. schlegelii Flower 1865

Distribution: Worldwide: cold-temperate to warm-temperate waters. Distributional records sometimes confused with B. edeni .

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Reviewed by Gambell (1985 a). Rice (1998:75-76) separated this species into B. borealis borealis and B. borealis schlegelii Flower, 1865 (Northern Sei Whale) (Southern Sei Whale).

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Balaenopteridae

Genus

Balaenoptera

Loc

Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Balaenoptera borealis

Lesson 1828: 342
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