Mifupa

Fuu (Sw Skull Key)

Ngozi (Sw Skin Key)

(Linnaeus, 1758). Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 1:75. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.

Oceano Europaeo (specifically Spitzbergen Sea).

1. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2:970-972, 976-977.

Though widely distributed, i.e. from the Equator to the polar regions, large concentrations are found in cold and temperate waters (Aguilar, 2009). In the Philippines, there has only been one sighting (western Sulu Sea, near Dumaran Island, east of Palawan, Dolar, 2006).

Only one sighting in the Philippines.  Based on the criteria set by IUCN, this species has been listed as “Endangered” (Reilly et al., 2008).

"Habitat in Oceano Europeao", restricted to Norway, near Svalbard, Spitsbergen Sea by Thomas (1911a).

http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/philippine_mammals/maps_distribution/SP39Balaenoptera_physalus.gif

http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/philippine_mammals/photos/2009%20Photos/SP39Balaenoptera_physalus1.jpg

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Balaenoptera physalus Linnaeus, 1758

Common Names: Fin whale [English], balyena, bongkaras

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