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 Eschrichtiidae > Genus Eschrichtius

Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eschrichtius*	Gray, 1864	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Aleut: chikakhluk

Chukot: kentaen

Czech: plejtvákovec šedý

Danish: gråhval

Dutch: grijze walvis; gryijze walvisch sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: California gray whale; California ranger; California whale; devilfish; graesoe whale; gray whale; grayback; grey whale; hard head; mud digger; mussel digger; rip sack; scamperdown; scrag whale; summer whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Shirihai, H. (2002). A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean. Alula Press FI 510 pp.

French: baleine à six bosses; baleine grise

German: Grauwal; Knotenfisch sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Italian: balena grigia sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: aosagi; koku; koku kujira; kokuzira; コククジラ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: gwisin-gorae

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

Norwegian: gråhval; Kaliforniske graahval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Portuguese: baleia cinzenta

Russian: kaliforniiskii kit; seryy kit; серый кит sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: sivi kit sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena gris

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

Ukrainian: Кит сірий; Сірий кит sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Vlaams: grijze walvis

Yupik languages: angtuchhaq; antokhak

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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
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	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	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
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. Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861). 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:137112