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--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER MYSTICETI
--> FAMILY Balaenidae
--> GENUS Balaena
SPECIES Balaena mysticetus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 75. | | Common Name: | Bowhead | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Oceano Groenlandico" (= Greenland Sea). | | Distribution: | Northern hemisphere: arctic waters. Strays have occured in Japan, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Massachusetts. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered (Spitzbergen population), Endangered (Okhotsk Sea subpopulation and Baffin Bay-Davis Strait stock), Vulnerable (Hudson Bay-Foxe Basin stock), Lower Risk (cd) (Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Sea stock), otherwise listed as Lower Risk (cd) for B. mysticetus. | |
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