Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online athttps://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors
Distribution Davis Strait and Hudson Bay [details]
Perrin, W.F. (2021). World Cetacea Database. Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2021) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137086 on 2025-04-01
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137086 on 2025-04-01
original descriptionLinnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online athttps://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors
basis of recordvan der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceMead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743., available online athttp://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/[details]
additional sourceHershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259., available online athttps://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246[details]
additional sourceJefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.[details]
additional sourcePerrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
ecology sourceLooby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online athttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4[details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Arctic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
(no group)
From editor or global species database
IUCN Red List Category Least Concern (LC) [details] IUCN Red List Category subpopulation Bering-Beaufort-Chukchi Sea bowhead whale : Lower Risk/conservation dependent (LR/cd) [details] IUCN Red List Category subpopulation Svaalbard-Barents Sea bowhead whale : Critically Endangered (CR) [details] IUCN Red List Category subpopulation Okhotsk Sea bowhead whale : Endangered (EN) [details] Type specimen Type locality Greenland Seas. No type specimen; based on the Greenland right whale of whalers and authors. [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution Subarctic area [details] Distribution Davis Strait and Hudson Bay [details] Habitat in pack ice regions [details]
whale-fishwhalebone whaleGreenland whaleGreenland right whalegreat polar whalebunch-back whalebowhead whaleblack right whalebaleine a tete d'arcArctic right whale
Present 
