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Balaenopteridae

Balaenopteridae

Balenopterídeos(+31)·Gray, 1864

GBIF:299454126

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 25 languages.

porBalenopterídeosporitaBalenotteridiitafraBalénoptéridésfrahunBarázdásbálna-félékhunengFin Whaleseng+27 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 25 languages.

porBalenopterídeos
por
itaBalenotteridi
ita
fraBalénoptéridés
fra
hunBarázdásbálna-félék
hun
engFin Whales
eng
danFinhvaler
dan
nobFinnhvaler
nob
deuFurchenwale
deu
turOluklubalinagiller
tur
polPłetwalowate
pol
spaRorcuales y yubartas
spa
afrRorkwalle
afr
porRorquais
por
afrVinwalvisse
afr
slvbrazdasti kiti
slv
swefenvalar
swe
nobfinnhvalfamilien
nob
nnofinnkvalfamilien
nno
cesplejtvákovití
ces
engrorquals
eng
finuurteisvalaat
fin
nldvinvissen
nld
turÇatal kuyruklu balinagiller
tur
rusПолосатиковые
rus
hebלווייתני ענק
heb
araهراكلة
ara
thaวาฬหลังค่อม วาฬแกลบ ฯลฯ
tha
thaวาฬอกร่อง
tha
jpnナガスクジラ科
jpn
zho鬚鯨科
zho
kor긴수염고래과
kor
kor수염고래과
kor

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Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299454126
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
5313
Taxon ID
722
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026