Northern fin whale

Northern fin whale[1]
Size compared to an average human
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Balaenoptera
Species:
B. physalus
Subspecies:
B. p. physalus
Trinomial name
Balaenoptera physalus physalus

The northern fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus physalus) is a subspecies of fin whale that lives in the North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean.[1] It has been proposed that the northern Pacific population represents a separate subspecies, B. p. velifera.[2][3] At least one other subspecies of fin whale, the southern fin whale (B. p. quoyi), exists in the Southern Hemisphere.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Balaenoptera physalus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
  2. ^ NOAA (2019-10-28). "Genetics reveal Pacific subspecies of fin whale". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  3. ^ Archer, F. I.; Brownell, R. L.; Hancock-Hanser, B. L.; Morin, P. A.; Robertson, K. M.; Sherman, K. K.; Calambokidis, J.; Urbán R., J.; Rosel, P. E; Mizroch, S. A.; Panigada, S.; Taylor, B. L.; Moratelli, R. (2019). "Revision of fin whale Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) subspecies using genetics". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (5): 1653–1670. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz121.