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Balaenoptera musculus Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 
AphiaID: 380449

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Mysticeti (Superfamily) > Balaenopteridae (Family) > Balaenoptera (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804
Synonymised
taxa
  Balaena maximus borealis Knox, 1838 (synonym)
Source  basis of record: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Bulgarian sin kit  [details]
Bulgarian Син кит  [details]
Danish blåhval  [details]
Dutch blauwe vinvis  [details]
English blue whale  [details]
French baleine bleue  [details]
German Blauwal  [details]
German Riesenwal  [details]
German Schanelwal  [details]
Hebrew לויתן ענק  [details]
Italian balenottera azzurra  [details]
Lithuanian mėlynasis banginis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Γαλάζια φάλαινα  [details]
Norwegian blåhval  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål blåhval  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk blåkval  [details]
Polish płetwal błękitny  [details]
Russian кит синий  [details]
Slovenian sinji kit  [details]
Spanish rorcual azul  [details]
Swedish blåval  [details]
Turkish gök balina  [details]
Turkish gök balinası  [details]
Ukrainian Кит синій  [details]
Ukrainian Синій кит  [details]
Ukrainian Смугастик Брайда  [details]
Welsh morfil asgellog glas  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (294 publications)
To PESI
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380449
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-01-15 13:04:03Z  created  Perrin, William
2009-12-31 18:14:43Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Balaenoptera musculus Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880. 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=380449 on 2013-05-22
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