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Northern Fin Whale
The northern fin whale (''Balaenoptera physalus physalus'') is a subspecies of fin whale that lives in the North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin .... It has been proposed that the northern Pacific population represents a separate subspecies, '' B. p. velifera''. At least one other subspecies of fin whale, the southern fin whale (''B. p. quoyi''), exists in the southern hemisphere. Size Northern fin whales are smaller than their southern hemisphere counterparts, with adult males averaging and adult females .Evans, Peter G. H. (1987). ''The Natural History of Whales and Dolphins''. Facts on File. Maximum reported figures are for males and for females in the North Pacific, while the longest reliably measured were and — al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
