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WoRMS taxon details
Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 137116
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Monodon Linnaeus, 1758 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Ceratodon monodon Pallas, 1811 (synonym)
Ceratodontis ceratodon Brisson, 1762 (synonym)
Monodon microcephalus Fleming, 1811 (synonym)
Monodon narhval Borowski, 1781 (synonym)
Monodon narhwal Blumenbach, 1799 (synonym)
Narwalus andersonianus Lacépède, 1804 (synonym)
Narwalus microcephalus Lacépède, 1804 (synonym)
Narwalus vulgaris Lacépède, 1804 (synonym)
Tachynices megacephalus Brookes, 1828 (synonym)
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| Sources | |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 page(s): 75 [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: 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: Reeves, R. R. and S. Tracey. (1980). Monodon monoceros. Mammalian Species 127:1--7. [details]
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Vernacular Names | | |
| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Arctic Ocean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (526 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 60 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Holotype: None in existence; name based on the narwhal of whalers and authors. [details]
IUCN Red List Category: Near Threatened (NT) [details]
Type locality: Northern seas of Europe and America. [details]
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| Images | |
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 44) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:17 |
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Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 45) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:25 |
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Monodon monoceros added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:35 |
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Monodon monoceros added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:43 |
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Monodon monoceros added on 2010-02-27 - author: Collection VLIZ ( ) qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137116 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758. 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=137116 on 2013-05-24 |
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