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--> FAMILY Monodontidae
--> GENUS Delphinapterus
SPECIES Delphinapterus leucas
| Author: | Pallas, 1776. | | Citation: | Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, 3(1): 85 [footnote]. | | Common Name: | Beluga | | Type Locality: | NE Siberia, "die im Obischen Meerbusen" (= mouth of Ob River). | | Distribution: | Circumpolar in Arctic seas; Okhotsk and Bering Seas; northern Gulf of Alaska (Cook Inlet); Gulf of St. Lawrence: arctic to cold-temperate waters; occasionally strays south to Honshu, Japan; France; and Massachusetts, USA. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Kleinenberg et al. (1969), T. G. Smith et al. (1990), Stewart and Stewart (1989, Mammalian Species, 336) and Brodie (1989). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
albicans (Lacépède, 1804)
beluga Lacépède, 1804
catodon (Gray, 1846)
dorofeevi Barabash and Klumov, 1935
marisalbi Ostroumov, 1935
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