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 physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Balaenoptera*	Lacépède, 1804	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Balaenoptera musculus*	Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880	synonym

Children

Balaenoptera physalus physalus Tomilin, 1946

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: vinwalvis

Aleutian: mangidadakh; mangidakh

Arabic: harcul chaii

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

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

Catalan: rorqual comú

Chukchi (Louravetlany): nilchoken biuu; niltkhokkein uiiut

Chukot: nilchoken biuu; niltkhokkein uiiut

Croatian: veliki kit

Czech: plejtvák myšok

Danish: finhval; Silde-Roren sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone vinvis; gewoone vinnvisch; vinvis; vinvisch

English: big finner; common finback whale; common finwhale; common rorqual; fin whale; finback whale; finner; herring whale; razor back sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Fin Whale sources: Charles Hussey

French: baleine américaine; rorqual commun; vraie baleine sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Finnfisch; Finnwal; Schnabelwal

Greek: pterofálaina; Πτεροφάλαινα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greenlandic: keporkarnak

Icelandic: finnhvaler; furehvaler; hunfubaks; langreydur; sildrek; sildreki

Indonesian: paus sirip

Israel (Hebrew): livyatan matzui; לווייתן מצוי; לויתן מצוי sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: balenottera comune; balenottera fisallo; rorqual comune; rorquallo; rorqualo

Japanese: nagasu kujira

Kalaallisut: keporkarnak; tunnolik

Korean: cham-gorae

Koryak: vapakylichan

Lapp: reider

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

Malagasi: trozona amam-bombo

Maltese: baliena mbacca sources: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 435.57 - Marine Mammals Protection Regulations. Malta. 12th August, 2003

Norwegian: finefisk; finhval; finnhval; finqval; loddehval; roren; sildehval; sildrör; stor-hval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: finnhval sources: Systema Naturae, 10th ed., 1:75

Norwegian Nynorsk: finnkval sources: Systema Naturae, 10th ed., 1:75

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

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

Portuguese: baleia-comum; baleia-fina

Russian: finval; nastoiashchiy polosatik; obyknovennyi polosatik; seldianoi polosatik; сельдяной кит; финвал sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Sami languages: reider

Slovenian: brazdasti kit sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena boba; ballena de aleta; ballena fin; ballena fisalus; rorcual común; rorcual de aleta

Swedish: finnfisk; rörval; sillhval; sillval

Turkish: fin balinasi; fin balinası; uzun balina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Фінвал sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil asgellog llwyd sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Yupik: tykyshkok

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	ITIS database
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	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	Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 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

Marine Life Information Network - UK
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
GenBank (276 nucleotides; 160 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (194 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:137091