Order Cetacea Author James G. Mead Author Robert L. Brownell, Jr. text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 349 364 book chapter 193271 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 b3335890-cc2a-4092-9ace-81c1cd7b5cad 1-56098-217-9 7352970 Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, 3(1):85 [footnote]. TYPE LOCALITY: NE Siberia, "die im Obischen Meerbusen" (= mouth of Ob River) . DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar in Arctic seas; Okhotsk and Bering Seas; northern Gulf of Alaska (Cook Inlet); Gulf of St. Lawrence: arctic to cold-temperate waters; occasionally strays south to Honshu, Japan ; France ; and Massachusetts , USA . STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known. SYNONYMS: albicans , beluga , catodon , dorofeevi, marisalbi. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Kleinenberg et al. (1969), T. G. Smith et al. (1990), Stewart and Stewart (1989, Mammalian Species, 336) and Brodie (1989).