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Balaenoptera musculus

Balaenoptera musculus

Baleia-azul(+70)·(Linnaeus, 1758)

GBIF:299454162

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PROFILE

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(5)

Antarctica/Southern Ocean
East Pacific
Eastern Atlantic Ocean
Indo-West Pacific
Western Atlantic Ocean

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 24 languages.

porBaleia-azulporspaBallena azulspadeuBlauwaldeuengBlue WhaleengdanBlåhvaldan+66 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 24 languages.

porBaleia-azul
por
spaBallena azul
spa
deuBlauwal
deu
engBlue Whale
eng
danBlåhval
dan
cymMorfil Asgellog Glas
cym
cymMorfilod Asgellog Glas
cym
engNorthern Indian Ocean Blue Whale
eng
engNorthern Indian Ocean population
eng
engOstende whale
eng
deuRiesenwal
deu
Royður
fao
deuSchanelwal
deu
deuSchwefelbauchwal
deu
engSibbald's rorqual
eng
engSibbald’s Rorqual
eng
engSouthern Blue Whale
eng
islSteypireyður
isl
engSulphurbottom
eng
abugulikh
akhvorkhrikh
spaalfaguara
spa
spaalfaware
spa
alitbossu
sme
porbaleia azul
por
frabaleine bleue
fra
frabaleine d'Ostend
fra
frabaleine jubarte
fra
catbalena blava
cat
itabalenottera azzura
ita
norblaahval
nor
nldblauwe vinvis
nld
sweblaval
swe
afrblouwalvis
afr
engblue rorqual
eng
rusblyuval
rus
nnoblåkval
nno
sweblåval
swe
rusbolshoi polosatik
rus
engcommon rorqual
eng
kordaewang-gorae
kor
engfinny whale
eng
rusgoluboi kit
rus
spagran rorcal
spa
enggreat blue whale
eng
enggreat northern rorqual
eng
enggreat rorqual
eng
islhafreydur
isl
norheipe-reydur
nor
islhrefna
isl
engintermedia
eng
swejattenhval
swe
spakila
spa
indlaylan agi
ind
swemuskel finnfisk
swe
omgolia
indpaus biru
ind
cesplejtvák obrovský
ces
sparorcual azul
spa
sparorcual gigante
spa
frarorqual bleu
fra
frarorqual de Sibbald
fra
norrörqual
nor
russinii kit
rus
jpnsiro nagasu kujira
jpn
islsteypireydr
isl
engsulphurbottom whale
eng
tnmerken-uiiut
mlgtrozona manga
mlg
tunnolik
kal
jpnシロナガスクジラ
jpn

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

EukaryotaAnimaliaChordataVertebrataGnathostomataOsteichthyesTetrapodaMammaliaTheriaEutheriaCetaceaMysticetiBalaenopteridaeBalaenopteraBalaenoptera musculus

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Source Information

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
299454162
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2440735
Taxon ID
KF8T
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026
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