
Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:75. TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali Americae, Europae." (= northern seas of Europe and America). DISTRIBUTION: Arctic Ocean; rarely in Beaufort, Chuckchi and East Siberian Seas; occasional strays as far south as the Newfoundland, the Netherlands, British Isles and Japan. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known. SYNONYMS: microcephalus, monodon, narhval, vulgaris. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Tracey (1980, Mammalian Species, 127) and Hay and Mansfield (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 pages 357-358, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970
Mammalia, Animalia, Monodon monoceros, Biodiversity, Cetacea, Monodon, Monodontidae, Chordata, Taxonomy
Mammalia, Animalia, Monodon monoceros, Biodiversity, Cetacea, Monodon, Monodontidae, Chordata, Taxonomy
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