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(of Balaena physalus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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Type data

Note "Oceano Europaeo," specifically the...

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Type locality "Oceano Europaeo," specifically the Spitzbergen Sea [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution in all oceans

Distribution in all oceans [details]

Distribution Antarctica/Southern Ocean; East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean

Distribution Antarctica/Southern Ocean; East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]

Taxonomic citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137091 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

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action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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van der Land, Jacob

2008-08-20 11:25:36Z

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Perrin, William

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original description (of Balaena boops Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Balaena physalus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors

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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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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. [details]

additional source Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306. [details] Available for editors

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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., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

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., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [details]

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

additional source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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. [details]

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. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

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Introduced: alien

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Holotype None; based primarily on the "finfish" of Martens (1675) [details]

IUCN Red List Category Endangered (EN) [details]

Morphology Distinguishing characteristics: white lower jaw on right, gray on left. Blow readily visible-10 m(33') tall, straight column. Curved dorsal fin closer to tail. light grey with white belly, occasional blotches of orange/yellow, blaze or chevron extending from eye across back. Fin and blue whales have the deepest, loudest voices in the ocean, letting them communicate over great distances. Second largest living animal after the blue whale. [details]

Predators Killer whale (Orcinus orca) [details]

Reproduction Calving: December to April in Northern Hemisphere, austral winter in Southern Hemisphere, in unknown localities; Weaning: 1 year [details]

Type locality "Oceano Europaeo," specifically the Spitzbergen Sea [details]

Unreviewed

Diet schooling fish, euphasiids and other invetebrates, copepods (when young), squid [details]

Dimensions Length: male 58-82' (17.7-25 m), female 60-88 1/2' (18.3-27 m), at birth 19 1/2' + (5.9 m+) [details]

Distribution in all oceans [details]

Distribution Antarctica/Southern Ocean; East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]

Habitat mostly offshore but also near the coast [details]

Importance In the North-West Atlantic region, it is the dominant large cetacean species in all seasons, with the largest standing stock, the largest food requirements, and therefore the largest impact on the ecosystem of any cetacean species. [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Afrikaans	vinwalvis	[details]
Aleut	mangidakhmangidadakh	[details]
Arabic	harcul chaii	[details]
Bulgarian	ФинвалСин кит [from synonym]sin kit [from synonym]finvаl	[details]
Catalan	rorqual comú	[details]
Chukot	niltkhokkein uiiutnilchoken biuu	[details]
Croatian	veliki kit	[details]
Czech	plejtvák myšok	[details]
Danish	Silde-Rorenfinhvalblåhval [from synonym]	[details]
Dutch	vinvisgewone vinvisblauwe vinvis [from synonym]	[details]
English	razor backherring whalefinnerfinback whalefin whalecommon rorqualcommon finwhalecommon finback whaleblue whale [from synonym]big finner	[details]
French	vraie baleinerorqual communbaleine bleue [from synonym]baleine américaine	[details]
German	SchnabelwalSchanelwal [from synonym]Riesenwal [from synonym]FinnwalFinnfischBlauwal [from synonym]	[details]
Hebrew	לויתן ענק [from synonym]לויתן מצוילווייתן מצויlivyatan matzui	[details]
Icelandic	sildrekisildreklangreydurhunfubaksfurehvalerfinnhvaler	[details]
Indonesian	paus sirip	[details]
Italian	rorqualororquallororqual comunebalenottera fisallobalenottera comunebalenottera azzurra [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	ナガスクジラnagasu kujira	[details]
Kalaallisut	tunnolikkeporkarnak	[details]
Korean	cham-gorae	[details]
Koryak	vapakylichan	[details]
Lithuanian	mėlynasis banginis [from synonym]finvalas	[details]
Malagasy	trozona amam-bombo	[details]
Maltese	baliena mbacca	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	ΠτεροφάλαιναΓαλάζια φάλαινα [from synonym]pterofálaina	[details]
Norwegian	stor-hvalsildrörsildehvalrorenloddehvalfinqvalfinnhvalfinhvalfinefiskblåhval [from synonym]	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	finnhvalblåhval [from synonym]	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	finnkvalblåkval [from synonym]	[details]
Polish	płetwal błękitny [from synonym]finwal	[details]
Portuguese	baleia-finabaleia-comum	[details]
Russian	финвалсельдяной киткит синий [from synonym]seldianoi polosatikobyknovennyi polosatiknastoiashchiy polosatikfinval	[details]
Sami languages	reider	[details]
Slovenian	sinji kit [from synonym]brazdasti kit	[details]
Spanish	rorcual de aletarorcual comúnrorcual azul [from synonym]kilaballena fisalusballena finballena de aletaballena boba	[details]
Swedish	sillvalsillhvalrörvalfinnfiskblåval [from synonym]	[details]
Turkish	uzun balinagök balinası [from synonym]gök balina [from synonym]fin balinasıfin balinasi	[details]
Ukrainian	ФінвалСмугастик Брайда [from synonym]Синій кит [from synonym]Кит синій [from synonym]	[details]
Welsh	morfil asgellog llwydmorfil asgellog glas [from synonym]	[details]
Yupik languages	tykyshkok	[details]