2003
DOI: 10.1038/nature02103
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A newly discovered species of living baleen whale

Abstract: In the late 1970s eight Balaenoptera specimens of unknown identity were caught in the lower latitudinal Indo-Pacific waters by Japanese research whaling vessels. The combination of the allozyme patterns and physical maturity of the eight specimens separated them from all acknowledged Balaenoptera species. In September 1998 we collected a medium-sized baleen whale carcass on a coastal island in the Sea of Japan. This specimen and the previously collected eight specimens resembled Balaenoptera physalus (fin whal… Show more

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“…While for half a century most authors followed Junge (1950) who synonymized B. brydei with B. edeni, recently species-level differences are again recognized (e.g. Wada et al, 2003;Best, 2007;Kanda et al, 2007;Yamada et al, 2008).…”
Section: Family Balaenopteridae Gray 1864mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While for half a century most authors followed Junge (1950) who synonymized B. brydei with B. edeni, recently species-level differences are again recognized (e.g. Wada et al, 2003;Best, 2007;Kanda et al, 2007;Yamada et al, 2008).…”
Section: Family Balaenopteridae Gray 1864mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For comparative purposes, mtDNA control region sequences of B. edeni published by Yoshida & Kato (1999) and Wada et al (2003) and of B. brydei published by Kanda et al (2007), were included in the estimation. The genealogy was rooted using the homologous sequence from B. omurai and B. borealis published in Wada et al (2003). To estimate support for each node a total of 1,000 bootstrap simulations were conducted and the majority-rule consensus genealogy estimated.…”
Section: Phylogenetic Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some authors (e.g., Wada et al 2003) recognize two species, the smaller one B. edeni Anderson, 1879 (Eden's whale) and a larger one B. brydei Olsen, 1913 (Bryde's whale), while others (e.g., Kershaw et al 2013) assign these species a sub-specific status: B. edeni edeni and B. edeni brydei, respectively. The smaller one inhabits primarily coastal and continental shelf waters of the Northern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean while the larger one inhabits tropical and warm temperature waters worldwide (Rice 1998).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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