|
|
WoRMS taxon details
Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 137118
| Status | | unaccepted (synonym) |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Accepted name | | Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Physeter Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Sources | |
original 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., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 page(s): 76 [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: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [details]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
|
Vernacular Names | | |
All child taxa [hide all] | | Subspecies Physeter catodon australis Tomilin, 1957 (nomen dubium)
Subspecies Physeter catodon catodon Tomilin, 1957 (nomen dubium)
|
| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Comores [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Wimereux (not certain) [details]
Zeebrugge [details]
|
| Links | | Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (158 publications)
To GenBank (322 nucleotides; 593 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
|
| Notes | |
Habitat: offshore [details]
Predators: None [details]
Synonymy: Most workers now use P. macrocephalus for the sperm whale [details]
Taxonomy: Some workers prefer use of this name for the sperm whale, rather than P. macrocephalus, also described by Linnaeus (1758), based on their interpretation of Linnaeus' diagnoses of the two nominal species and belief that P. macrocephalus refers to the pilot whale Globicephala melas. However, most workers now consider both names to refer to the sperm whale, with P. macrocephalus having line priority on the page in Linnaeus' work. [details]
|
| Images | |
Physeter catodon - sperm whale added on 2006-06-26 - author: Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) ( ) qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-27 21:44:19 |
|
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 18) added on 2008-06-02 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:26:10 |
|
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 19) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:26:48 |
|
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 20) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:26:38 |
|
|
| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137118 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
|
| | | [Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] |
| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758. 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=137118 on 2013-05-23 |
| | | The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
|
|