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Table 2.3 Baleen <strong>whales</strong>. World distribution <strong>and</strong> status of species, subspecies <strong>and</strong> key populations<br />

Baleen <strong>whales</strong> (suborder Mysticeti) in the families Balaenidae, Right Whales (1–4); Neobalaenidae, Pygmy Right Whale (5); Exchrichtidae, Gray Whales (6); Balaenopteridae,<br />

Rorquals (7–14)<br />

Species, subspecies, key populations Red List 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18<br />

status<br />

1. North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis EN ?<br />

2. North Pacific right whale, Eubalaena japonica EN ?<br />

3. southern right whale, Eubalaena australis LR(cd)<br />

4. bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus LR(cd)<br />

a. bowhead: Bering–Chukchi–Beau<strong>for</strong>t stock LR(cd)<br />

b. bowhead: Okhotsk Sea stock EN<br />

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c. bowhead: Baffin Bay–Davis Strait stock EN<br />

d. bowhead: Hudson Bay–Foxe Basin stock VU<br />

e. bowhead: Svalbard–Barents Sea stock CR<br />

5. pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata LC<br />

6. gray whale, Eschrictius robustus LR(cd)<br />

a. gray: Northeast Pacific (American) stock LR(cd)<br />

b. gray: Northwest Pacific (Asian) stock CR<br />

c. gray: North Atlantic EX<br />

7. humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae VU<br />

8. minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata NT<br />

a. minke: North Atlantic, B. acutorostrata acutorostrata NE<br />

b. minke: North Pacific, B. acutorostrata scammoni NE ? ? ?<br />

c. minke: dwarf-<strong>for</strong>m, B. acutorostrata subsp NE<br />

Key: Indicates species is present in a marine region

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