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 melas (Traill, 1809)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Globicephala*	Lesson, 1828	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Globicephala melaena*	(Traill, 1809)	orthographic variant
*Delphinus melas*	Traill, 1809	synonym

Children

Globicephala melas melas (Traill, 1809)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: langvinloodswalvis

Arabic: kouraoui arras achaii

Basque: izurde pilotua

Catalan: cap d'olla; cap d'olla negre

Croatian: bjelogrii dupin; kit debeloglavac

Czech: kulohlavec černý

Danish: grind; langluffet grindehval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: griend

English: American black-fish; Atlantic blackfish; blackfish; caa'ing whale; common blackfish; common pilot whale; driving whale; Indian pilot whale; long-finned pilot whale; northern pilot whale; pothead; roundhead; round-headed porpoise; social whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

Faroese: grindahvalur; grindaquealur

Finnish: grindvalas; pallopaa

French: cachelot svineval; chaudron; dauphin pilote; déducteur; globicéphale commun; globicéphale conducteur; globicéphale noir 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.

Galician: caldeiro

German: Grindwal; Schwarzwal

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

Hebrew: natav shachor

Icelandic: grindhvalur; leiftur; marsvin; nydingur

Indonesian: paus hitam

Italian: delfino pilota; globicefalo; globicefalo nero

Kalaallisut: nisarnaq

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

Maltese: baliena sewda

Norwegian: grinde; grindhval; grinzehval; svinehval

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

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

Polish: albrzymi delfin; grindwal długopłetwy sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia piloto de peitoral longa; boca de panela; cachalote-añao

Russian: grindy; sharogolovyi delfin; обыкновенная гринда sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: obloglavka sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena piloto; cabeza de buzo; calderón común; calderón de aleta larga; calderón negro; globicefalo negro; morfin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: grindval

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

Ukrainian: Гринда звичайна; Звичайна гринда sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil pengrwn

Literature

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	Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (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.
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	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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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	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	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
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

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809). 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:137097