Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 191-192

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13930955

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF0B87EA-AE49-FFDE-9F4B-F923FD3C041F

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758
status

 

360. Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL

Common name: Sperm Whale

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Antarctic and cold-temperate waters (Northern hemisphere) to tropical waters. In Myanmar, recorded in the offshore waters of Bay of Bengal ( Parnum 2019).

Remarks: This species is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN and a completely protected species of Myanmar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

SubOrder

Ruminantia

ParvOrder

Odontoceti

Family

Physeteridae

Genus

Physeter

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