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Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Balaena physalus Linnaeus p. 75
1758Balaena boops Linnaeus p. 76
1804Balaenoptera gibbar Lacépède p. 114
1804Balaenoptera rorqual Lacépède p. 126
1811Balaena sulcata Neill
1829Balaena antiquorum Fischer p. 525
1829Balaenoptera physalus quoyi Fisher
1829Balaena antiquorum Fisher p. 525
1832Balaenoptera rorqual Dewhurst p. 214
1841Balaena sulcata arctica Schlegel
1846Balaenoptera antiquorum Gray p. 50
1846Balaenoptera boops Gray p. 50
1846Balaenoptera brasiliensis Gray p. 51
1846Balaenoptera physalus Gray p. 83
1846Balaena (Balaenoptera) tschudii Reichenbach
1847Physalus antiquorum Gray p. 96
1847Balaena physalus Nilsson p. 636
1850Physalus antiquorum Gray p. 38
1850Physalus fasciatus Gray p. 42
1850Physalus brasiliensis Gray p. 43
1864Physalus duguidii Gray p. 187
1864Benedenia knoxii Gray p. 212
1864Physalus antiquorum Gray p. 216
1864Physalus duguidii Gray p. 221
1865Balaenoptera patachonica Burmeister p. 190
1865Physalus patachonicus Gray p. 190
1866Physalus patachonicus Burmeister p. 495
1866Physalus antiquorum Gray p. 114
1866Benedenia knoxii Gray p. 138
1866Physalus duguidii Gray p. 158
1866Physalus brasiliensis Gray p. 162
1866Physalus fasciatus Gray p. 162
1866Physalus patachonicus Gray p. 374
1868Benedenia knoxii Gray p. 2
1868Physalus antiquorum Gray p. 2
1868Physalus duguidii Gray p. 2
1868Physalus patachonicus Gray p. 2
1868Swinhoia chinensis Gray p. 3
1869Balaenoptera velifera Scammon and Cope p. 16
1879Balaenoptera blythi Anderson
1888Balaenoptera patachonica Moreno p. 22
1889Balaenoptera patachonica Ameghino p. 889
1901Balaenoptera velifera copei Elliot
1903Balaenoptera physalus Racovitza p. 55
1904Balaenoptera velifera Trouessart p. 783
1904Balaenoptera velifera copei Trouessart p. 783
1904Balaenoptera arctica Trouessart p. 784
1904Balaenoptera blythi Trouessart p. 784
1904Balaenoptera patachonicha Trouessart p. 784
1904Balaenoptera patachonicha tschudii Trouessart p. 784
1904Balaenoptera physalus Trouessart p. 784
1904Balaenoptera quoyi Trouessart p. 784
1911Balaenoptera physalus Thomas p. 156
1922Balaenoptera physalus Oliver p. 561
1929Balaenoptera physalus Dal Piaz p. 87
1952Balaenoptera physalis Sherman p. 99
1963Balaenoptera physalus Scheffer and Rice p. 9
1966Balaenoptera physalus Hershkovitz p. 163
1977Balaenoptera physalus Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1991Balaenoptera physalus Vidal p. 6
1998Balaenoptera physalus Rice p. 76
2005Balaenoptera physalus Mead and Brownell p. 725
2006Balaenoptera physalus Bouetel and Muizon p. 386
2008Balaenoptera physalus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2008Balaenoptera physalus Uhen et al. p. 619
2011Balaenoptera physalus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2011Balaenoptera physalus Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2014Balaenoptera physalus Tsai et al. p. 86
2015Balaenoptera physalus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
Chaeomysticeti()
Balaenomorpha
superfamilyThalassotherii
familyBalaenopteridae
genusBalaenoptera
speciesphysalus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Balaenoptera physalus Linnaeus 1758 [fin whale]
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Invalid names: Balaena antiquorum Fischer 1829 [synonym], Balaena sulcata Neill 1811 [synonym], Balaena sulcata arctica Schlegel 1841 [invalid subgroup], Balaenoptera antiquorum Gray 1846 [synonym], Balaenoptera blythi Anderson 1879 [synonym], Balaenoptera boops Linnaeus 1758 [synonym], Balaenoptera copei Elliot 1901 [synonym], Balaenoptera gibbar Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Balaenoptera patachonica Burmeister 1865 [objective synonym], Balaenoptera patachonicha tschudii Reichenbach 1846 [synonym], Balaenoptera quoyi Fisher 1829 [synonym], Balaenoptera rorqual Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Balaenoptera velifera Scammon and Cope 1869 [synonym], Benedenia knoxii Gray 1864 [synonym], Physalus brasiliensis Gray 1846 [synonym], Physalus duguidii Gray 1864 [synonym], Physalus fasciatus Gray 1850 [synonym], Physalus patachonicus Burmeister 1865 [synonym], Swinhoia chinensis Gray 1868 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available