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Sibbald|ˈsɪbəld| The name of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722), Scottish naturalist, used in the possessive to designate the blue whale, Balænoptera musculus.
1897R. Lydekker Conc. Knowledge Nat. Hist. 173 The largest..of all whales, is the blue, or Sibbald's rorqual.., commonly known to the American whalers by the name of ‘sulphur-bottom’. 1937[see blue whale s.v. blue a. 12 a]. 1972Oxf. Bk. Vertebrates 190/1 Sibbald's Rorqual..has a world-wide distribution and migrates between high and low latitudes. |