Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)
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Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) |
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Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) View in CoL . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, 3(1):85 [footnote].
TYPE LOCALITY: NE Siberia, "die im Obischen Meerbusen" (= mouth of Ob River) .
DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar in Arctic seas; Okhotsk and Bering Seas; northern Gulf of Alaska (Cook Inlet); Gulf of St. Lawrence: arctic to cold-temperate waters; occasionally strays south to Honshu, Japan; France; and Massachusetts, USA.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.
SYNONYMS: albicans , beluga , catodon , dorofeevi, marisalbi.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Kleinenberg et al. (1969), T. G. Smith et al. (1990), Stewart and Stewart (1989, Mammalian Species, 336) and Brodie (1989).
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