Balaenoptera omurai Wada, Oishi & Yamada, 2003 
AphiaID: 343896

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Mysticeti > Balaenopteridae > Balaenoptera

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804
Sources		original description: Wada, S., M. Oishi and T. K. Yamada. (2003). A newly discovered species of living baleen whale. Nature 426:278-281. [details] basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (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: 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: Sasaki, T., M. Nikaido, S. Wada, T. K. Yamada, Y. Cao, M. Hasegawa and N. Okada. (2006). Balaenoptera omurai is a newly discovered baleen whale that represents an ancient evolutionary lineage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41:40-52. [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English Bryde's whale  [details] English Bryde's-like whale  [details] English Omura's whale  [details] English pygmy Bryde's whale  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Central Indo-Pacific [details]
Feedingtype		carnivore [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (144 nucleotides; 151 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS
Notes		Holotype: Adult female, NSMT-M32505, National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Paratype: Five females and three males, NRIFSF 1-8, National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Fisheries Research Agency, Shimizu, Japan [details] Type locality: The Sea of Japan [details]
Image		Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera omurai) added on 2009-04-23 - author: Robert Pitman, NOAA Fisheries () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 00:56:52
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:343896
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-04-11 11:37:23Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Balaenoptera omurai Wada, Oishi & Yamada, 2003. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=343896 on 2013-05-18