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Balaena mysticetus
Linnaeus, 1758
- Arctic bowhead whale
(mammal)
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Balaena (Genus) - bowhead whale, Greenland right whale
..Balaena australis (Species)
..Balaena glacialis (Species) - black right whale
..Balaena mysticetus (Species) - Arctic bowhead whale
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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