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Balaenoptera physalus velifera  Cope in Scammon, 1869
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1217460

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subspecies  
  Synonym(s): Balaenoptera velifera Cope in Scammon, 1869
  
  Common Name(s): North Pacific fin whale [English]
  
       
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderCetacea Brisson, 1762 – baleines, cétacés, dauphins, mammfères marins, marsouins, baleia, cetáceo, golfinho, cetaceans, whales, dolphins, marine mammals, porpoises  
                                  SuborderMysticeti Flower, 1864 – baleen whales  
                                     FamilyBalaenopteridae Gray, 1864 – rorquals  
                                        GenusBalaenoptera Lacépède, 1804 – rorquals, finback whales, baleen whales  
                                           SpeciesBalaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Fin Whale, finback whale, rorqual commun, Ballena de aleta  
                                              SubspeciesBalaenoptera physalus velifera Cope in Scammon, 1869 – North Pacific fin whale  
       

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  Source: List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies (2023), website (version Nov 2023)  
  Acquired: 2023   
  Notes: Committee on Taxonomy. 2023. List of marine mammal species and subspecies. Society for Marine Mammalogy, www.marinemammalscience.org, consulted on 13 Nov 2023   
  Reference for: Balaenoptera physalus velifera, North Pacific fin whale [English]   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pérez-Alvarez, MJosé, Sebastián Kraft, Nicolás I. Segovia, Carlos Olavarría, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2021   
  Article/Chapter Title: Contrasting Phylogeographic Patterns Among Northern and Southern Hemisphere Fin Whale Populations With New Data From the Southern Pacific   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 8, no. 630233   
  Page(s): 1-12   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 2296-7745   
  Notes: doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.630233   
  Reference for: Balaenoptera physalus velifera   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: East Pacific  
    Indo-West Pacific  
       
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