Relationships towards this taxonGenus group namesSpecies group names
Balaenoptera musculus | Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 | synonym | ChildrenBalaenoptera physalus physalus Tomilin, 1946
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(-) 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 Literatureoriginal 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. |
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CitationPerrin, 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:137091Image![loading](images/ajax-loader.gif)
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