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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Monodontidae
--> GENUS Monodon
SPECIES Monodon monoceros
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 75. | | Common Name: | Narwhal | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali Americae, Europae." (= northern seas of Europe and America). | | Distribution: | Arctic Ocean; rarely in Beaufort, Bering, Chuckchi and East Siberian Seas; occasional strays as far south as Newfoundland, the Netherlands, British Isles and Japan. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Reeves and Tracey (1980, Mammalian Species, 127) and Hay and Mansfield (1989). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
microcephalus (Lacépède, 1804)
monodon (Pallas, 1811)
narhval Blumenbach, 1788
vulgaris (Lacépède, 1804)
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