Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 137119

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Physeteridae > Physeter

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
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: 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 page(s): 76 [details] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans potvis  [details] Albanian kashalot  [details] Aleut adagig  [details] Aleut aggadakhgik  [details] Arabic anbar  [details] Catalan catxalot  [details] Croatian ulješura  [details] Czech vorvaň obrovský  [details] Czech vorvaň tuponosý  [details] Danish kaskelot  [details] Danish spermacethval  [details] Dutch kaizilot  [details] Dutch potvis  [details] Dutch potvisch  [details] English chocolate whale  [details] English sperm whale  [details] English spermacet whale  [details] English trompe whale  [details] English trumpo  [details] French cachalot  [details] French cachalot à dents en faucille  [details] French cachalot à dents pointues  [details] Georgian chigat  [details] German Pottfisch  [details] German Pottwal  [details] Hebrew roshtan  [details] Icelandic búrhvalur  [details] Icelandic tweld-hval  [details] Indonesian paus lodan  [details] Italian capodoglio  [details] Italian cascialotto  [details] Italian fisetere  [details] Italian organante  [details] Japanese makko kujira  [details] Kalaallisut kegutilik  [details] Kalaallisut kigitulik  [details] Korean hyang-gorae  [details] Koryak koiapchak  [details] Lithuanian kašalotas  [details] Malagasy trozona amam-taimbo  [details] Malagasy trozona be loha  [details] Maltese gabdoll  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) fysitiras  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Φυσητήρας  [details] Norwegian bardhvalur  [details] Norwegian burdhvalur  [details] Norwegian burr-hval  [details] Norwegian huns-hval  [details] Norwegian kascelot  [details] Norwegian kaskelot  [details] Norwegian knobbe-herre  [details] Norwegian potfisk  [details] Norwegian spermhval  [details] Norwegian storhufd  [details] Norwegian sue-hval  [details] Polish olbrotowick  [details] Polish potwal olbrotowiec  [details] Portuguese cachalote  [details] Russian bolshoi plavun  [details] Russian kashalot  [details] Russian spermatsetovyi kit  [details] Russian wolkmorskoi  [details] Sindhi bahran  [details] Slovenian kit glavač  [details] Southern Balochi bahran  [details] Spanish ballena esperma  [details] Spanish cachalote  [details] Spanish chacalote  [details] Spanish fiseter  [details] Spanish guapo  [details] Swedish pottfisk  [details] Tamil ratchatha thimingalam  [details] Thai plawan huathui  [details] Turkish ispermeçet  [details] Turkish ispermecet balinasi  [details] Turkish ispermecet balinası  [details] Turkish kasalot  [details] Turkish kaşalot  [details] Ukrainian Кашалот  [details] Welsh morfil sberm  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Antarctica [details] Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Doel [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Knokke [details] Koksijde [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Pacific Ocean [details] Seychelles [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (653 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Images		Sperm whale added on 2006-11-24 - author: Kagari Aoki qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:25:59 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:27:00 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:27:11 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:13:01 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:13:15 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:13:29 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:13:45 Gestrande potvis Theofiel added on 2012-02-09 - author: Jeff De Groote () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:13:58 Gestrande potvis Theofiel - detail kaken added on 2012-02-09 - author: VLIZ (Vandepitte) () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:14:14 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:14:29 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:14:46 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:15:03 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:15:17 Physeter macrocephalus added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:15:32
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137119
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2005-03-29 08:12:19Z   changed   Claus, Simon 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William 2009-01-06 23:07:05Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Physeter macrocephalus 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=137119 on 2013-06-18
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