Balaenoptera edeni Anderson 1878

Authors :: James G. Mead
Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
Publication Year :: 1993
Publisher :: Zenodo, 1993.
Abstract: Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878. Anat. Zool. Res., Yunnan, p. 551, pl. 44. TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, "found its way into the Thaybyoo Choung, which runs into the Gulf of Martaban between the Sittang and Beeling Rivers, and about equidistant from each". DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters. Distributional records sometimes confused with B. borealis. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I. SYNONYMS: brydei. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Cummings (1985a). May represent more than one species (Wada and Numachi, 1991).<br />Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 350, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970