| Species fact sheet | by Global Register of Migratory Species - www.groms.de |
| Use the GROMS database for dynamic search for migratory species, new links and references. |
| Balaenoptera physalus | Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Baleonopteridae |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| English: | Fin whale |
| French: | Baleine fine |
| Spanish: | Rorcual común |
| German: | Finnwal (There's a German version of this page!) |
| Norwegian: | Finnhval (There's a Norwegian version of this page!) |
| Migration: | interoceanic |
| Regions: | Antarctic, East Asia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North Africa, North America, North Asia, Oceania, South & Southeast Asia, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, West & Central Asia |
“Most mysticetes have latitudinal migrations, from tropical breeding grounds to high(er) latitude feeding grounds.
In breeding grounds, mating and calving take place.”
(Forcada J, 2002, Distribution, In: Encyclopedia of marine mammals, Perrin WF, Würsig B, Thewissen JGM (eds), 327-333, Academic Press, San Diego)
More about whales and dolphins from:
Riede, K. (2001): Global Register of Migratory Species. Weltregister wandernder Tierarten. (p. 64-68)
Recommended link(s):
| ARKive | Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus): description, pictures, movies... |
| OBIS-SEAMAP | Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations taxonomy, discription, distribution (map), ecology & behaviour, feeding & prey, threats & status of the Fin whale |
| www.oceanoasis.org | Ocean Oasis' Field Guide about the Finback whale (also in Spanish) |
| www.acsonline.org | American Cetacean Society Fact Sheet about the Fin whale |
| sea.unep-wcmc.org | UNEP-WCMC Species Database (German/English), showing taxonomy ("Names"), distribution ("Verbreitung"), status ("Status"), legal sources ("Legal"), text references ("Referenzen"), connotations ("Anmerkungen"), links to other databases ("Betriebsmittel"), and (links to) pictures (on other homepages) ("Photos") concerning the Fin whale |
| Animal Diversity Web | University of Michigan - Museum of Zoology |
To gather more information about whales in general see the link collection at connotea.org: cetacea
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Feedback: mail to Klaus Riede
(Last update: 10.7.2007 by A. Tappenhölter)