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Balaena mysticetus (bowhead whale)
Taxonomy
Balaena mysticetus was named by Linnaeus (1758) [No type specimen designated, no type locality (Linnaeus, 1758).
]. It is extant.
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1756 | Balaena vulgaris Brisson p. 347 |
| 1756 | Balaena vulgaris groenlandica Brisson p. 347 |
| 1758 | Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus p. 75 |
| 1762 | Balaena vulgaris Brisson p. 218 |
| 1762 | Balaena vulgaris groenlandica Brisson p. 218 |
| 1804 | Balaena mysticetus Lacépède p. 1 |
| 1842 | Balaena mysticetus De Kay p. 124 |
| 1846 | Balaena mysticetus Gray p. 15 |
| 1847 | Balaena prisca Nilsson |
| 1847 | Balaena mysticetus Nilsson p. 642 |
| 1850 | Balaena mysticetus Gray p. 12 |
| 1864 | Balaena mysticetus Gray p. 199 |
| 1865 | Balaena mysticetus Flower p. 394 |
| 1866 | Balaena mysticetus Gray p. 81 |
| 1868 | Balaena mysticetus Gray p. 1 |
| 1869 | Balaena mysticetus Scammon and Cope p. 15 |
| 1871 | Balaena mysticetus Gray p. 38 |
| 1873 | Balaena mysticetus Scott p. 132 |
| 1874 | Balaena mysticetus Brandt p. 41 |
| 1887 | Balaena mysticetus Lydekker p. 16 |
| 1902 | Balaena mysticetus Hay p. 601 |
| 1904 | Balaena mysticetus Trouessart p. 787 |
| 1911 | Balaena mysticetus Thomas p. 155 |
| 1912 | Balaena mysticetus Turner p. 21 |
| 1966 | Balaena mysticetus Hershkovitz p. 193 |
| 1998 | Balaena mysticetus Rice p. 64 |
| 2003 | Balaena mysticetus Bisconti p. 15 |
| 2005 | Balaena mysticetus Mead and Brownell p. 723 |
| 2006 | Balaena mysticetus Bouetel and Muizon p. 387 |
| 2008 | Balaena mysticetus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2008 | Balaena mysticetus Uhen et al. p. 618 |
| 2009 | Balaena mysticetus Bisconti p. 153 |
| 2011 | Balaena mysticetus Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2014 | Balaena mysticetus Tsai et al. p. 87 |
| 2015 | Balaena mysticetus Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2015 | Balaena mysticetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus 1758 [bowhead whale]
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Balaena mysticetus roysii Dall 1874
Invalid names: Balaena prisca Nilsson 1847 [synonym], Balaena vulgaris Brisson 1756 [synonym], Balaena vulgaris groenlandica Brisson 1756 [synonym]
Balaena mysticetus pittekajensis Trouessart 1904
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Collections (357 total)