Cetacea name details

Balaenoptera musculus Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880

380449 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380449)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Chordata
  4. Vertebrata
  5. Gnathostomata
  6. Tetrapoda
  7. Mammalia
  8. Theria
  9. Cetartiodactyla
  10. Cetancodonta
  11. Cetacea
  12. Mysticeti
  13. Balaenopteridae
  14. Balaenoptera
  15. Balaenoptera musculus
 unaccepted (synonym)
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804
Balaena maximus borealis Knox, 1838 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, terrestrial
Not documented
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Balaenoptera musculus Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380449 on 2026-08-15
Date
action
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2009-01-15 13:04:03Z
created
Perrin, William
2009-12-31 18:14:43Z
changed
Perrin, William

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] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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LanguageName 
Bulgarian Син китsin kit  [details]
Danish blåhval  [details]
Dutch blauwe vinvis  [details]
English blue whale  [details]
French baleine bleue  [details]
German SchanelwalRiesenwalBlauwal  [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 balinasıgök balina  [details]
Ukrainian Смугастик БрайдаСиній китКит синій  [details]
Welsh morfil asgellog glas  [details]
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Balaena maximus borealis Knox, 1838)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (350 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Balaenoptera musculus) 
To IUCN Red List (Endangered) 
To PESI 
To ITIS