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

Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Balaenoptera*	Lacépède, 1804	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: Bryde-walvis

English: coastal form Bryde's whale; Eden's whale; Kochi whale; pygmy Bryde's whale; Sittang whale; small form Bryde's whale; smaller Indian fin-whale sources: van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

French: rorqual de Bryde

German: Edenwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Φάλαινα του Εντεν sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Italian: balenottera di Bryde; balenottera di Eden sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: katsuo kuzira; nitari kujira; ogasawara-kuzira; カツオクジラ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: beuraideu-gorae

Lithuanian: Braido nykštukinis ruožuotis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Malagasy: trozon'i Bryde; trozon'i tropika

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

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

Russian: kit brayda; или тропический кит; полосатик брайда sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: Bridov kit sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena arenquera; ballena caribena; ballena de Bryde; ballena sardinera; ballena tricrestada; rorcual de Bryde; rorcual tropical

Thai: plawan sittang

Turkish: bride balinası; Bryde balinası; Eden balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Смугастик Брайда

Literature

original description	Anderson, J. (1878). Anatomical and zoological research; comprising an account of zoological results of two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875. London. pp. 551-564, figs. 21-28, pl. 44.
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	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. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
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.
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	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. 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. 723--743.
taxonomy source	Committee on Taxonomy, Society for Marine Mammalogy.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137089