Taxon resources: Balaenoptera musculus
Taxonomy details
Context
- Taxon Id
- 36
- Common Name
- Blue Whale
- Authority
- (Linnaeus,1758)
- Naming Status
- Currently accepted name
- Status
- Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
See map of extents - Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.
Hierarchy
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- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Balaenoptera
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- Catalogue id
- 4739C3
- Caption
- Present
- Photographer
- Baars, Christo
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