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 Odontoceti > Family Delphinidae > Genus Globicephala

Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Globicephala*	Lesson, 1828	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: kortvinloodswalvis

Dutch: Indische griend

English: blackfish; bubble; Indian pilot whale; North Pacfic blackfish; North Pacific pilot whale; short-finned pilot whale; southern blackfish sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: globecéphale tropical

German: Indischer Grindwal; Kurzflossen-Grindwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Indonesian: paus hitam bersirip pendek

Italian: globicefalo di Gray sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: gondo kujira; ma-gondo; naiso gota; ohanan gota; sibo gota; sicho gota; tappa-naga; コビレゴンドウ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: deul-soe-gorae

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

Malagasy: trozona mtondra vohy fohy

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

Portuguese: baleia piloto de peitoral curta; caldeirao

Russian: короткоплавниковая гринда sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: kratkoplavuta mrka pliskavka sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena pilota de aleta corta; ballena piloto; bufeo prieto; calderón de aletas cortas; calderón tropical sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Tamil: thimingalam

Thai: plawan nam rong

Turkish: kısa yüzgeçli kara balina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Гринда короткоплавцева; Короткоплавцева гринда

Literature

original description	Gray J.E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Volume 1: Mammalia and Birds.
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	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	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
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.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 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	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
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.
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. Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846. 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:137096