Balaenoptera acutorostrata
creator: van der Land, Jacob
creator: Perrin, William
date: 2026-08-30
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2026). World Cetacea Database. Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137087 on 2026-08-30
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2008-08-20T13:25:36Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
class: Mammalia
family: Balaenopteridae
genus: Balaenoptera
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: de Lacépède, B. G. E. (1804). Histoire naturelle des cétacées. In Buffon, Histoire naturelle. vol. 37:317.
name published in: Cope, E.D. (1868). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 20: 159.
name published in: Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe. xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl.
name published in: Gray, J. E. (1850). Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Cetacea. Department of Zoology. 1-153.
name published in: Rapp, W. (1837). Die Cetaceen zoologisch-anatomisch dargestellt. Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 23-58.
name published in year: 1804
name published in year: 1868
name published in year: 1780
name published in year: 1850
name published in year: 1837
order: Cetartiodactyla
parent name usage ID: 137013
phylum: Chordata
scientific name authorship: Lacépède, 1804
specific epithet: acutorostrata
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted