Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 137116

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Monodontidae > Monodon

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Monodon Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised taxa		Ceratodon monodon Pallas, 1811 (synonym) Ceratodontis ceratodon Brisson, 1762 (synonym) Monodon microcephalus Fleming, 1811 (synonym) Monodon narhval Borowski, 1781 (synonym) Monodon narhwal Blumenbach, 1799 (synonym) Narwalus andersonianus Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Narwalus microcephalus Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Narwalus vulgaris Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Tachynices megacephalus Brookes, 1828 (synonym)
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: 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: Reeves, R. R. and S. Tracey. (1980). Monodon monoceros. Mammalian Species 127:1--7. [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Bulgarian nаrvаl  [details] Bulgarian Нарвал  [details] Chukot kaipuuliak  [details] Czech narval  [details] Czech narval jednorohý  [details] Danish narhval  [details] Dutch eenhornvis  [details] Dutch narwal  [details] English hog  [details] English horned whale  [details] English narwhal  [details] English sea canary  [details] English sea unicorn  [details] English unicorne  [details] French licorne de mer  [details] French narval  [details] German Narwal  [details] Icelandic illhval  [details] Icelandic nahveli  [details] Icelandic narhvalur  [details] Icelandic rödkamm  [details] Inuktitut Adlungwak  [details] Inuktitut killalugaq  [details] Inuktitut tugalik (W. Greenland)  [details] Italian narvalo  [details] Japanese ikkuka  [details] Japanese itsu kaku  [details] Kalaallisut kelelluak-tuak  [details] Kalaallisut kelleluak-kakortok  [details] Kalaallisut killalugaq  [details] Kalaallisut qernertaq  [details] Kalaallisut rusaluvak-kernartak  [details] Kalaallisut tauvar  [details] Kalaallisut tugalik  [details] Lithuanian narvalas  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Νάρβαλ  [details] Norwegian lighval  [details] Norwegian narhval  [details] Norwegian Bokmål narhval  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk narkval  [details] Polish narwal  [details] Portuguese narval  [details] Russian edinorog  [details] Russian edinozub  [details] Russian jedinorogh morskoi  [details] Russian narval  [details] Russian rogozub  [details] Russian нарвал-единорог  [details] Slovenian narval  [details] Spanish narval  [details] Swedish enhornad hortand  [details] Swedish narval  [details] Turkish deniz gerdani  [details] Turkish denizgerdani  [details] Turkish narval  [details] Ukrainian Нарвал  [details] Ukrainian одноріг  [details] Welsh morfil uncorn  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Arctic Ocean [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (526 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 60 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Holotype: None in existence; name based on the narwhal of whalers and authors. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Near Threatened (NT) [details] Type locality: Northern seas of Europe and America. [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 44) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:17 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 45) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:25 Monodon monoceros added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:35 Monodon monoceros added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:06:43 Monodon monoceros added on 2010-02-27 - author: Collection VLIZ () qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137116
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). Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137116 on 2013-05-22