Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776). Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, 3(1):85 [footnote]. TYPE LOCALITY: NE Siberia, "die im Obischen Meerbusen" (= mouth of Ob River). DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar in Arctic seas; Okhotsk and Bering Seas; northern Gulf of Alaska (Cook Inlet); Gulf of St. Lawrence: arctic to cold-temperate waters; occasionally strays south to Honshu, Japan; France; and Massachusetts, USA. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known. SYNONYMS: albicans, beluga, catodon, dorofeevi, marisalbi. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Kleinenberg et al. (1969), T. G. Smith et al. (1990), Stewart and Stewart (1989, Mammalian Species, 336) and Brodie (1989).

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970