Cetacea taxon details

Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758

137086  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137086)

accepted
Species
Balaena mysticetus roysii Dall, 1874 · unaccepted (synonym)
Baloena mysticetus Robineau, 1989 · unaccepted (Synonym)

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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 75 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
Distribution Subarctic area  
Distribution Subarctic area [details]

Distribution Davis Strait and Hudson Bay   
Distribution Davis Strait and Hudson Bay  [details]
Perrin, W.F. (2021). World Cetacea Database. Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137086 on 2024-03-28
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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 75 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Animal Diversity Web. <em>University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.</em> , available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [details]   

additional source Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]   

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]   

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [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.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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IUCN Red List Category Least Concern (LC) [details]

IUCN Red List Category subpopulation Bering-Beaufort-Chukchi Sea bowhead whale : Lower Risk/conservation dependent (LR/cd) [details]

IUCN Red List Category subpopulation Svaalbard-Barents Sea bowhead whale : Critically Endangered (CR) [details]

IUCN Red List Category subpopulation Okhotsk Sea bowhead whale : Endangered (EN) [details]

Type specimen Type locality Greenland Seas. No type specimen; based on the Greenland right whale of whalers and authors. [details]

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Distribution Subarctic area [details]

Distribution Davis Strait and Hudson Bay  [details]

Habitat in pack ice regions [details]
LanguageName 
Aleut ugamachcachkuliamilakkulema  [details]
Bulgarian Гренландски китGrenlаndski kit  [details]
Chukot ittiv  [details]
Czech velryba grónská  [details]
Danish schlichtebacksandhvalrethvalgrönlandshvalbartfisch  [details]
Dutch Groenlandse walvis  [details]
English whale-fishwhalebone whaleGreenland whaleGreenland right whalegreat polar whalebunch-back whalebowhead whaleblack right whalebaleine a tete d'arcArctic right whale  [details]
Evenki kallium  [details]
French baleine franche boréalebaleine franchebaleine du Groenlandbaleine de grande baiebaleine  [details]
German WalfischPolarwalNordwalGrönlandswalBogenkopf  [details]
Icelandic vatushalarsletbacurnordvalurgröenlandshvalur  [details]
Italian balena della Groenlandiabalena artica  [details]
Japanese serbiohokkyoku kujira  [details]
Kalaallisut sokalikarbekarbavirsoakakbek  [details]
Latvian walzius  [details]
Lithuanian Grenlandinis banginis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Φάλαινα της Αρκτικής  [details]
Norwegian sletbaksletbagsietbackhvalfiskgronlandskhvalgrønlandshvalgronlandshvalfinqval  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål grønlandshval  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk grønlandskval  [details]
Polish wieloryb grenlandzki  [details]
Portuguese baleia da Gronelândia  [details]
Russian или полярный китгренландскийpoliarskyi kitgreenlandskiy kit  [details]
Slovenian Grenlandski kit  [details]
Spanish ballena de Groenlandiaballena de cabeza arqueadaballena boreal  [details]
Swedish rättvalhvalfiskgrönlandsval  [details]
Turkish Grönland balinasıGronland balinası  [details]
Ukrainian полярний китКит гренландськийГренландський кит  [details]
Yakut kakhlim  [details]
Yupik languages kiralickakhgvopikagkhovik  [details]