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WoRMS taxon details
Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878
AphiaID: 137089
AphiaID: 137089
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Mysticeti (Superfamily) > Balaenopteridae (Family) > Balaenoptera (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913 (Nomen inquirendum) Baloenoptera brydei Cadenat, 1957 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Anderson, J. (1878). Anatomical and zoological research; comprising an account of zoological results of two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875. London. pp. 551-564, figs. 21-28, pl. 44. [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | carnivore [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: in all oceans [details] Habitat: mostly in tropical and subtropical zones, offshore as well as near the coast [details] Holotype: Skeleton, mounted, Indian Museum, Calcutta; collected by Major A. G. Duff, Deputy Commissioner of British Burma, and M. Duke, assistant [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Taxonomic Remark: It is unclear whether the small form is a separate species or arose in several different places from the large offshore form (which would be B. brydei if small form were coherent distinct species). Some workers presently recognize two species. [details] Type locality: Thaybyoo Choung, Gulf of Martaban, between Sittang and Beeling Rivers, Burma [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878. In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137089 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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