Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 349-350

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154862

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scientific name

Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
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Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 View in CoL . Hist. Nat. Cetacees, p. 134.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, "pris aux environs de la rade de Cherbourg", Mancha .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: arctic to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: bonaerensis , davidsoni , huttoni , minimus , rostrata .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Stewart and Leatherwood (1985). Two forms have been described from SW Pacific waters (Arnold et al., 1987). May represent two or three species (Wada and Numachi, 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Balaenopteridae

Genus

Balaenoptera

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