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 Megaptera

Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

MegapteraGray, 1846accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Aleutian: aliamak; alkhiamak; khi-tkhukkh
 Bokmål (Norwegian): knølhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Chukchi (Louravetlany): kaipokak uiiut
 Czech: keporkak; keporkak dlouhoplautvý
 Danish: buckelhval; pukkelhval; stubhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: bultrug; langarmvinvisch; pennvisch
 English: bunch whale; hump; humpback whale; hunch; hunchback whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 English-United States: Humpback Whale sources: Charles Hussey
 French: baleine à bosse; baleine à taquet; baleine tampon; jubarte; mégaptere; rorqual du Cap; rorqual noueux
 German: Buckelwal; Knurrwal; Pflockfisch
 Greek: Μεγάπτερη; Μεγάπτερη φάλαινα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Greenlandic: keporkak
 Italian: balena gobba; megattera sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Japanese: zato kujira
 Latvian: valzius
 Lithuanian: kuprotasis banginis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian: knölhval; knølhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: knølhval sources: Gemein. Naturgesch. Thier., 2(1):21
 Norwegian Nynorsk: knølkval sources: Gemein. Naturgesch. Thier., 2(1):21
 Nynorsk (Norwegian): knølkval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: długopłetwiec; pletwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Portuguese: baleia jubarte; jubarte
 Russian: dlinnorukyi polosatik; gorbach; gorbatyi kit; veselyi kit; горбатый кит sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: kit grbavec sources: Davorin Tome
 Spanish, Castillian: gubarta; jibarte; jorobada; rorqual jorobado; yubarta
 Swedish: hnunfurbakur; knölval; puckelval
 Turkish: kambur balina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Ukrainian: Горбань; Горбатий кит; Горбач; Кит горбатий sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Welsh: morfil cefngrwm sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Yupik: aghvesiiq; kaipokak

Literature

original description

Borowski, G. H. (1781). Gemeinnüzzige[sic] Naturschichte des Tierreichs,.. G. L. Lange, Berlin and Stralsund.

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

Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.

additional source

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008.

additional source

Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.

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

ITIS database

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

Stacey, P. J. and P. W. Arnold. (1999). Orcaella brevirostris. Mammalian Species 616:1--8.

additional source

Clapham, P. J. and J. G. Mead. (1999). Megaptera novaeangliae. Mammalian Species 604:1--9.

additional source

King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp

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.

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External Links

Link Marine Life Information Network - UK
Link To GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2012). Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137092

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

CITES:
appendix 1 This species is listed on the CITES Appendix I which means it is threatened with extinction and CITES prohibits international trade in specimens of these species except when the purpose of the import is not commercial, for instance for scientific research.
EU Habitat Directive:
annex IV EU Habitat Directive Annex IV: Species of community interest in need of strict protection.
IUCN:
Red List status LC 2008This species is least concern and is widespread and abundant according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

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