WoRMS taxon details
Physeter tursio Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 148738
AphiaID: 148738
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Physeteridae (Family) > Physeter (Genus) |
| 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 [details] source of synonymy: Schevill, W.E. (1986). The International Code of zoological nomenclature and a paradigm: the name Physeter catodon Linnaeus 1758. Mar. Mamm. Sci. 2(2): 153-157 (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications) | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148738 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Physeter tursio 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=148738 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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