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WoRMS taxon details
Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 AphiaID: 137088
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Balaenoptera alba Giglioli, 1870 (synonym)
Balaenoptera arctica Temminck, 1841 (synonym)
Balaenoptera iwasi Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Balaenoptera laticeps Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Balaenoptera schlegelii Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 (synonym)
Balaenoptera schlegellii Dabbene, 1902 (synonym)
Balena rostrata Rudolphi, 1822 (synonym)
Belaenoptera schlegeli Lahille, 1899 (synonym)
Pterobalaena alba Giglioli, 1874 (synonym)
Pterobalaena schlegeli Tomilin, 1957 (synonym)
Pterobalaena schlegeli alba Tomilin, 1957 (synonym)
Sibbaldius schlegelii Gray, 1864 (synonym)
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| Sources | |
original description: Lesson (1828). Compléments des oeuvres de Buffon ou Histoire naturelle des animaux rares, 1 (Cétacés):342 [not pl. 12, = B. acutorostrata] [details]
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: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]
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., 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. [details]
additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [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., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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Vernacular Names | | |
Direct child taxa [show all] | | Subspecies Balaenoptera borealis borealis Tomilin, 1946
Subspecies Balaenoptera borealis schlegelii Tomilin, 1946
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Antarctica [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Comores [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Noordkaap [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
World Oceans [details]
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| Feedingtype | |
carnivore [details]
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| Host of | |
Pennella balaenopterae Koren & Danielssen, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (181 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (71 nucleotides; 80 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Diet: euphausiids, copepods, amphipods, small fish, squid [details]
Dimensions: Length: male 42-60 1/2' (12.8-18.5 m), female 44-69' (13.4-21 m), at birth 15' (4.6 m) [details]
Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details]
Distribution: Antarctica/Southern Ocean; East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]
Habitat: mostly in open ocean [details]
Habitat: offshore [details]
Holotype: Skeleton in Berlin Museum, originally described and figured by Rudolphi in 1822 as Balaena rostrata, then as the "rorqual du nord" by Cuvier (1823). Stranded Feb. 21, 1819. [details]
IUCN Red List Category: Endangered (EN) [details]
Morphology: Distinguishing characteristics: Blow readily visible-6m (20'0 straight column, less dense than fin whale. Curved dorsal fin mid-back. Colour is slate grey, occasional round scars. [details]
Predators: None [details]
Reproduction: Calving: Winter in unknown localities; Weaning: 7 months [details]
Type locality: Coast of Holstein near Gromitz, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. [details]
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| Images | |
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 10 & 11) added on 2008-06-02 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 22:59:49 |
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Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 14 & 15) added on 2008-06-02 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:00:09 |
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Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:44:44 |
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Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:45:32 |
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Racovitza (1903, pl. 3) added on 2011-07-26 - author: E. G. Racovitza scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: not checked |
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Balaenoptera borealis added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked |
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Balaenoptera borealis added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137088 |
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| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Balaenoptera borealis. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137088 on 2013-06-19 |
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