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Taxon: Species Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) - beluga (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name Pallas, 1776:85n.
Original rank
Subsequent generic combination

Types

Type, by synonymy, ofDelphinapterus (Genus) Lacépède, 1804

Synonyms

Synonymous nameBeluga catodon Gray, 1846 Ref: J.G. Mead & R.L. Brownell Jr., 2005: 735. [implicit]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namewitte dolfijn
beloega

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namebeluga Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 136.
white whale
beluga whale
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