Balaenoptera musculus

Familia: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Balaenoptera
Species: Balaenoptera musculus

• Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Type locality: UK, Scotland, Firth of Forth ("Habitat in Mari Scotico")
  • Original combination: Balaena musculus

• Rorqualus musculus Hassanin et al., 2012 [subsequent combination]

• Sibbaldius sulfureus Cope, 1869

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp  DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 76. Reference page. 
• Balaenoptera musculus in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Hassanin, A., Delsuc, F., Ropiquet, A., Hammer, C., Vuuren, B.J., Matthee, C., Ruiz-Garcia, M., Gatzeflis, F., Areskoug, V., Nguyen, T.T. & Couloux, A. 2012. Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes. Comptes Rendus Biologies 335(1): 32–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2011.11.002
• Takeshi Sasaki, Masato Nikaido, Healy Hamilton, Mutsuo Goto, Hidehiro Kato, Naohisa Kanda, Luis A Pastene, Ying Cao, R Ewan Fordyce, Masami Hasegawa, Norihiro Okada, Mitochondrial Phylogenetics and Evolution of Mysticete Whales, Systematic Biology, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2005, Pages 77–90, https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150590905939
• Gatesy, J., Geisler, J. H., Chang, J., Buell, C., Berta, A., Meredith, R. W., ... & McGowen, M. R. (2013). A phylogenetic blueprint for a modern whale. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 66(2),
• Árnason, Ú., Lammers, F., Kumar, V., Nilsson, M. A., & Janke, A. (2018). Whole-genome sequencing of the blue whale and other rorquals finds signatures for introgressive gene flow. Science advances, 4(4), eaap9873. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aap9873
• Khalaf-Prinz Sakerfalke von Jaffa, N. A. B. (2020). The Chilean Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus chilensis Khalaf, 2020): A New Subspecies from Chile. Gazelle: The Palestinian Biological Bulletin. ISSN 0178 – 6288. Volume 38, Number 185, 01 May 2020, pp. 40-63. Published by Prof. Dr. Norman Ali Khalaf Department for Environmental Research and Media, National Research Center, University of Palestine, Gaza, State of Palestine.

• IUCN: Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)  (Endangered)
• [1] Listed animal in CITES Appendix I
• Smithsonian Institution - North American Mammals: Balaenoptera musculus
• Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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