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WoRMS taxon details
Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861) AphiaID: 137112
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Eschrichtius Gray, 1864 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Agaphelus glaucus Cope, 1868 (synonym)
Balaena boops Kerr, 1792 (synonym)
Balaena gibbosa Erxleben, 1777 (synonym)
Balaenoptera robusta Lilljeborg, 1861 (basionym)
Eschrichtius gibbosus Van Deinse & Junge, 1937 (synonym)
Eschrichtius glaucus Maher, 1961 (synonym)
Rhachianectes glaucus Cope, 1869 (synonym)
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| Sources | |
original description: Lilljeborg. (1861). Forh. Skand. Naturf. Ottende Møde, Kopenhagen (1860), 8. page(s): 602 [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: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [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: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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Vernacular Names | | |
| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Arctic Ocean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (99 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (250 nucleotides; 129 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Diet: Bottom-dwelling amphipods, isopods, polychaete worms, mollusks, and other invertebrates and in some places at some times, various invertebrates at the surface or in the water column.The gammarid amphipod, Ampelisca macrocephala, is most likely the most commonly eaten prey in its main summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea. [details]
Dimensions: Length: male 45' (15 m) [details]
Distribution: East Pacific, Indo-West Pacific [details]
Habitat: strongly coastal [details]
Habitat: often found within a kilometre of the coastal shore [details]
Holotype: Partial skeleton found buried about 840 feet from the beach; in University Museum of Upsala, Sweden. [details]
IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]
IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Northwest Pacific gray whale : Critically Endangered (CR) [details]
Predators: killer whale [details]
Reproduction: Mating related behaviors noted all year, but conceptions occur within a 3-week period during the southward migration (early December). Gestation period is around 13 months, nursing 7 months. Sexually mature at eight. [details]
Type locality: Gräsö, Roslagan, Upland, Sweden [details]
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| Images | |
Eschrichtius robustus added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:46:21 |
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Young gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in captivity added on 2009-04-23 - author: Perrin, William qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:01:57 |
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Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) entangled in gill net added on 2009-04-23 - author: Steve Leatherwood qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:04:08 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137112 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137112 on 2013-05-23 |
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