Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 137091

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: 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): 75 [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: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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 vinwalvis  [details] Aleut mangidadakh  [details] Aleut mangidakh  [details] Arabic harcul chaii  [details] Bulgarian finvаl  [details] Bulgarian Финвал  [details] Catalan rorqual comú  [details] Chukot nilchoken biuu  [details] Chukot niltkhokkein uiiut  [details] Croatian veliki kit  [details] Czech plejtvák myšok  [details] Danish finhval  [details] Danish Silde-Roren  [details] Dutch gewone vinvis  [details] Dutch vinvis  [details] English big finner  [details] English common finback whale  [details] English common finwhale  [details] English common rorqual  [details] English fin whale  [details] English finback whale  [details] English finner  [details] English herring whale  [details] English razor back  [details] French baleine américaine  [details] French rorqual commun  [details] French vraie baleine  [details] German Finnfisch  [details] German Finnwal  [details] German Schnabelwal  [details] Hebrew livyatan matzui  [details] Hebrew לווייתן מצוי  [details] Hebrew לויתן מצוי  [details] Icelandic finnhvaler  [details] Icelandic furehvaler  [details] Icelandic hunfubaks  [details] Icelandic langreydur  [details] Icelandic sildrek  [details] Icelandic sildreki  [details] Indonesian paus sirip  [details] Italian balenottera comune  [details] Italian balenottera fisallo  [details] Italian rorqual comune  [details] Italian rorquallo  [details] Italian rorqualo  [details] Japanese nagasu kujira  [details] Kalaallisut keporkarnak  [details] Kalaallisut tunnolik  [details] Korean cham-gorae  [details] Koryak vapakylichan  [details] Lithuanian finvalas  [details] Malagasy trozona amam-bombo  [details] Maltese baliena mbacca  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) pterofálaina  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Πτεροφάλαινα  [details] Norwegian finefisk  [details] Norwegian finhval  [details] Norwegian finnhval  [details] Norwegian finqval  [details] Norwegian loddehval  [details] Norwegian roren  [details] Norwegian sildehval  [details] Norwegian sildrör  [details] Norwegian stor-hval  [details] Norwegian Bokmål finnhval  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk finnkval  [details] Polish finwal  [details] Portuguese baleia-comum  [details] Portuguese baleia-fina  [details] Russian finval  [details] Russian nastoiashchiy polosatik  [details] Russian obyknovennyi polosatik  [details] Russian seldianoi polosatik  [details] Russian сельдяной кит  [details] Russian финвал  [details] Sami languages reider  [details] Slovenian brazdasti kit  [details] Spanish ballena boba  [details] Spanish ballena de aleta  [details] Spanish ballena fin  [details] Spanish ballena fisalus  [details] Spanish kila  [details] Spanish rorcual común  [details] Spanish rorcual de aleta  [details] Swedish finnfisk  [details] Swedish rörval  [details] Swedish sillhval  [details] Swedish sillval  [details] Turkish fin balinasi  [details] Turkish fin balinası  [details] Turkish uzun balina  [details] Ukrainian Фінвал  [details] Welsh morfil asgellog llwyd  [details] Yupik languages tykyshkok  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Antarctica [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Comores [details] Den Helder [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [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] North Sea [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] Vlissingen [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] World Oceans [details]
Feedingtype		carnivore [details]
Host of		Balaenophilus unisetus Aurivillius, 1879 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pennella balaenopterae Koren & Danielssen, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (194 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (276 nucleotides; 160 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Images		Fin whale added on 2006-11-24 - author: Nobuo Kokubun qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:11:29 Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:19:22 Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:20:39 Fin whale surfacing added on 2011-02-10 - author: Hilary Moors () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-09-08 00:47:10 Balaenoptera physalus added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-09-08 00:46:07
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137091
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 physalus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=137091 on 2013-05-18
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