Balaenoptera musculus (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 : 189

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13930899
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scientific name	Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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337. Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Common name: Blue Whale

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Worldwide distribution from arctic to tropical waters. In Myanmar, recorded in the Myanmar coastal waters ( Yamada et al. 2022).

Remarks: This species is listed as endangered by the IUCN.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
SubOrder	Ruminantia
ParvOrder	Mysticeti
Family	Balaenopteridae
Genus	Balaenoptera

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