Northern Fin Whale

Balaenoptera physalus physalus

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
Family: Balaenopteridae

The northern fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus physalus) is a subspecies of fin whale that lives in the North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean. It has been proposed that the northern Pacific population represents a separate subspecies, B. p.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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