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Balaenidae

Balaenidae

Baleia franca(+36)·Gray, 1821

GBIF:299454199

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

porBaleia francaporporBaleias-francasporfraBaleines (Rorquals)frafraBaleines franchesfraitaBalena francaita+32 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.

porBaleia franca
por
porBaleias-francas
por
fraBaleines (Rorquals)
fra
fraBaleines franches
fra
itaBalena franca
ita
itaBalenidi
ita
turBalinagiller
tur
spaBallenas francas
spa
fraBalénidés
fra
engBowhead and Right Whales
eng
nldEchte Walvissen
nld
fraEubalaena
fra
turGerçek balinagiller
tur
hrvGlatki kitovi
hrv
deuGlattwale
deu
litGlotnieji banginiai
lit
danRethvaler
dan
nobRetthvaler
nob
Vera Baleno
epo
engbowhead whales
eng
nobretthvalfamilien
nob
nnorettkvalfamilien
nno
engright whales
eng
engright whales and bowhead whales
eng
swerätvalar
swe
finsilovalaat
fin
cesvelrybovití
ces
polwalowate
pol
rusГладкие киты
rus
hebבלניים
heb
hebבנליים
heb
araبالينات
ara
thaวาฬแท้ วาฬหัวคันศร ฯลฯ
tha
jpnセミクジラ科
jpn
zho露脊鯨
zho
zho露脊鯨科
zho
kor참고래과
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
299454199
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
9682
Taxon ID
6ZY
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026