Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 
AphiaID: 137088

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Mysticeti > Balaenopteridae > Balaenoptera

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804
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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans seiwalvis  [details] Bulgarian seyvаl  [details] Bulgarian Сейвал  [details] Catalan balena del nord  [details] Czech pletvák severný  [details] Danish sejhval  [details] Dutch noordse vinvis  [details] Dutch nordsche vinvisch  [details] English dike whale  [details] English fish whale  [details] English flatback  [details] English northern rorqual  [details] English pollack whale  [details] English Rudolph's rorqual  [details] English sardine whale  [details] English sei whale  [details] French baleine noire  [details] French rorqual de Rudolph  [details] German Seiwal  [details] Hebrew לויתן צפוני  [details] Icelandic sandereydur  [details] Italian balenottera boreale  [details] Japanese iwashi kujira  [details] Japanese iwasikuzira  [details] Japanese kaguo kuzira  [details] Korean bori-gorae  [details] Lithuanian seivalas  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Βορειοφάλαινα  [details] Norwegian seichval  [details] Norwegian seihval  [details] Norwegian Bokmål seihval  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk seikval  [details] Polish sejwal  [details] Russian ivasevyi kit  [details] Russian ivasevyi polosatik  [details] Russian saidianoi kit  [details] Russian seival  [details] Russian сейвал  [details] Slovenian zajval  [details] Spanish ballena boba  [details] Spanish ballena boreal  [details] Spanish ballena sei  [details] Spanish rorcual boreal  [details] Spanish rorcual de Rudolphi  [details] Spanish rorqual del norte  [details] Spanish rorqual norteno  [details] Spanish seihual  [details] Swedish sejval  [details] Thai plawan klaebkhribdam  [details] Turkish sey balinası  [details] Ukrainian івасевий кит  [details] Ukrainian Сайдяний кит  [details] Ukrainian Сейвал  [details] Welsh morfil asgellog sei  [details]
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]
Feedingtype		carnivore [details]
Host of		Pennella balaenopterae Koren & Danielssen, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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
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 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 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 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 Racovitza (1903, pl. 3) added on 2011-07-26 - author: E. G. Racovitza scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: not checked Balaenoptera borealis added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked Balaenoptera borealis added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137088
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137088 on 2013-06-19
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