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--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER MYSTICETI
--> FAMILY Balaenidae
--> GENUS Eubalaena
SPECIES Eubalaena japonica
| Author: | Lacépède, 1818. | | Citation: | Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4: 469. | | Common Name: | North Pacific Right Whale | | Type Locality: | Japan. | | Distribution: | North Pacific: temperate to to tropical waters; one stray record from Hawaii (Scarff, 1986). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered (as included in E. glacialis); IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Reinstated by Rosenbaum et al. (2000), Brownell et al. (2001); see Hershkovitz (1961b). |
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