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Taxon: Species Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 - Arctic bowhead whale (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  C. Linnaeus, 1758
Unavailable original name:  Gesn. pisc. 114.
Original name, rank, combination & spelling:  Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 75.
Unavailable original rank: 
Unavailable subsequent generic combination: 

Types

Type, by original designation, of: Balaena (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Balaena prisca S. Nilsson Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous name: Balaena vera Zorgdrageri Klein, 1741, nom. inval. Ref: J.F. Gmelin, 1788: 223. [implicit]
Synonymous name: Balaena vera Zorydrageri Gmelin, 1788, nom. inval., orth. inval. Ref: J.F. Gmelin, 1788: 223.
Synonymous name: Balaena vulgaris Brisson, 1762 Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous name (subjective): Balaena mysticetus islandica Kerr, 1792 Ref: J.E. Gray, 1866a: 82 ("Gmelin").
Synonymous name (subjective): Wallfisch Martens, 1675, nom. inval. Ref: J.F. Gmelin, 1788: 223.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: Arctic bowhead whale Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 108.
: bowhead
: bowhead whale
: Greenland right whale
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