Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Mysticeti > Family Balaenopteridae > Genus Balaenoptera

Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Balaenoptera*	Lacépède, 1804	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: seiwalvis

Bokmål (Norwegian): seihval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Bulgarian: seyvаl; Сейвал sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: balena del nord

Czech: pletvák severný

Danish: sejhval

Dutch: noordsche vinvisch; noordse vinvis; nordsche vinvisch; nordse vinvis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: dike whale; fish whale; flatback; northern rorqual; pollack whale; Rudolph's rorqual; sardine whale; sei whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Sei Whale sources: Charles Hussey

French: baleine noire; rorqual de Rudolph

German: Seiwal

Greek: Βορειοφάλαινα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: sandereydur

Israel (Hebrew): לויתן צפוני sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: balenottera boreale sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: iwashi kujira; iwasikuzira; kaguo kuzira

Korean: bori-gorae

Lithuanian: seivalas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: seichval; seihval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: seihval sources: Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Mamm. Oiseaux, 1:342

Norwegian Nynorsk: seikval sources: Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Mamm. Oiseaux, 1:342

Nynorsk (Norwegian): seikval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: sejwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: ivasevyi kit; ivasevyi polosatik; saidianoi kit; seival; сейвал sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: zajval sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena sei; rorcual boreal; rorcual de Rudolphi; rorqual del norte; rorqual norteno; seihual sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: sejval

Thai: plawan klaebkhribdam

Turkish: sey balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: івасевий кит; Сайдяний кит; Сейвал sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil asgellog sei

Literature

original description	Lesson (1828). Compléments des oeuvres de Buffon ou Histoire naturelle des animaux rares, 1 (Cétacés):342 [not pl. 12, = B. acutorostrata]
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.
additional source	Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
additional source	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (181 publications)
GenBank (71 nucleotides; 80 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828. In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137088