Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass 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

GlobicephalaLesson, 1828accepted genus name

Species group names

Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809) orthographic variant
Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809) synonym

Children

Globicephala melas melas (Traill, 1809)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Afrikaans: langvinloodswalvis
 Arabic: kouraoui arras achaii
 Bokmål (Norwegian): grindhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 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; caa'ing whale; common blackfish; common pilot whale; driving whale; long-finned pilot whale; northern pilot whale; pothead; roundhead; round-headed porpoise; social whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 English-United States: Long-finned Pilot Whale sources: Charles Hussey
 Euskera: izurde pilotua
 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
 Greenlandic: nisarnaq
 Icelandic: grindhvalur; leiftur; marsvin; nydingur
 Indonesian: paus hitam
 Israel (Hebrew): natav shachor
 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 sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: grindhval sources: Nicholson's J. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 22:81
 Norwegian Nynorsk: grindkval sources: Nicholson's J. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 22:81
 Nynorsk (Norwegian): 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

original description

Traill, T. S. (1809). Description of a new species of whale, Delphinus melas. In a letter from Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D. to Mr. Nicholson. Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. February, 1809:81--83.

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

University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web.

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

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

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

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.

additional source

ITIS database

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (78 nucleotides; 106 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809). 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:137097

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Occurrence

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Importance

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2008-08-20 by William Perrin

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