Balaenoptera musculus Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 
AphiaID: 380449

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

Status		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: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea.../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380449 on 2013-05-23