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WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Delphinus melas Traill, 1809) Traill, T. S. T. (1809). Description of a new species of whale, Delphinus melas. In a letter from Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D. to Mr. Nicholson. <em>Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts.</em> 22: 81--83., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/829112 [details]
basis of record
van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p. [details]
additional source
Animal Diversity Web. <em>University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.</em> , available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [details]
additional source
Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source
Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
additional source
Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]
additional source
Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [details]
additional source
Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]
additional source
Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
From editor or global species database
Diet squid mostly but also a variety of fish. [details]
Distribution in all oceans except Northern Indian Ocean and North Pacific (where they occurred historically off Japan). [details]
Distribution Antarctica/Southern Ocean; Southeast Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean, Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]
Habitat offshore; generally occupy areas of high relief or submerged banks. [details]
Holotype None; see Lectotype [details]
IUCN Red List Category Data Deficient (DD) [details]
Importance Are still hunted in Faero Islands. [details]
Lectotype Figured specimen, one of 92 whales stranded December 1806; skull in British Museum (Natural History), no. 363a--44.12.3.2, purchased 1844 from Traill. [details]
Morphology Distinguishing characteristics: black-coloured whales with a white belly, spherical melon and a robust body. No constriction at the neck and the body is quite cylindrical from the head backward to the region of the dorsal fin. Dorsal fin has a long base, it is low, directed backwards and is set for forward on the body. 8-13 teeth in each of the 4 jaws and flippers which are 1/5 of the body length. [details]
Reproduction Female matures sexually at 6-7 years, male not until 12 years. In North Atlantic, mate in February and March in warm water and the young are born between July and October 15 to 16 months later in cooler water. Nursed for 20 months. Remain with their mother for 2 years. [details]
Type locality Scapay Bay, Pomona, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK [details]Unreviewed
Dimensions Legth: male 13-25' (4-7.6 m), female 10-18 1/2' (3-5.6 m), at birth 6' (1.9 m) [details]
Habitat temperate and subpolar, mostly oceanic [details]
Predators None [details]
| Language | Name | |
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Afrikaans |
langvinloodswalvis |
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Arabic |
kouraoui arras achaii |
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Basque |
izurde pilotua |
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Catalan |
cap d'olla negrecap d'olla |
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Croatian |
kit debeloglavacbjelogrii dupin |
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Czech |
kulohlavec černý |
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Danish |
langluffet grindehvalgrind |
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Dutch |
griend |
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English |
social whaleround-headed porpoiseroundheadpotheadpilot whale [from synonym]northern pilot whalelong-finned pilot whaleIndian pilot whaledriving whalecommon pilot whalecommon blackfishcaa'ing whaleblackfishAtlantic blackfishAmerican black-fish |
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Faroese |
grindaquealurgrindahvalur |
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Finnish |
pallopaagrindvalas |
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French |
globicéphale noirglobicéphale conducteurglobicéphale commundéducteurdauphin pilotechaudroncachelot svineval |
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Galician |
caldeiro |
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German |
SchwarzwalGrindwal |
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Hebrew |
natav shachor |
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Icelandic |
nydingurmarsvinleifturgrindhvalur |
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Indonesian |
paus hitam |
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Italian |
gobicefalo [from synonym]globicefalo neroglobicefalodelfino pilota |
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Kalaallisut |
nisarnaq |
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Lithuanian |
paprastoji grinda |
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Maltese |
baliena sewda |
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Modern Greek (1453-) |
Μαυροδέλφινοmavrodélfino |
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Norwegian |
svinehvalgrinzehvalgrindhvalgrinde |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
grindhval |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
grindkval |
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Polish |
grindwal długopłetwyalbrzymi delfin |
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Portuguese |
cachalote-añaoboca de panelabaleia piloto de peitoral longa |
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Russian |
обыкновенная гриндаsharogolovyi delfingrindy |
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Slovenian |
obloglavka |
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Spanish |
morfinglobicefalo negrocalderón negrocalderón de aleta largacalderón comúncabeza de buzoballena piloto |
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Swedish |
grindval |
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Turkish |
uzun yüzgeçli kara balinasiyah yunus [from synonym] |
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Ukrainian |
Звичайна гринда Гринда звичайна |
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Welsh |
morfil pengrwn |
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Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Globiceps affinis Flower, 1884)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (123 publications) (from synonym Delphinus melas Traill, 1809)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (161 publications) (from synonym Globiocephalus melas Murie, 1874)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Globiocephalus affinis Gray, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Globicephala leucosagmaphora Rayner, 1939)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Globicephalus conductor Rapp, 1837)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (203 publications) (from synonym Delphinus globiceps Temminck, 1841)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (203 publications) (from synonym Delphinus globiceps G. Cuvier, 1812)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Sphaerocephalus incrassatus Gray, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Globicephalus globiceps Philippi, 1893)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (248 publications) (from synonym Globicephalus melas Flower, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Globiceps melas Flower, 1884)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Globiocephalus incrassatus Gray, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) (from synonym Delphinus grampus Gray, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) (from synonym Phocaena globiceps A. Smith, 1834)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications) (from synonym Globicephala melaena Thomas, 1898)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications) (from synonym Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Delphinus grinda Lyngbye, 1824)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Globicephalus affinis True, 1889)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Grampus affinis Gray, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Globiocephalus chilensis Philippi, 1896)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (82 publications) (from synonym Delphinus deductor Scoresby, 1820)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Globicephala melas)
To GenBank (114535 nucleotides; 87344 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (MMP STR 18640 Globicephala melas - carcass)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809))
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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