Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Mysticeti > Family Balaenopteridae > Genus Megaptera

Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Megaptera*	Gray, 1846	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: boggelwalvis

Aleutian: aliamak; alkhiamak; khi-tkhukkh

Balochi: abra

Bokmål (Norwegian): knølhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: balena geperuda; lubarta

Chukchi (Louravetlany): kaipokak uiiut

Chukot: kaipokak uiiut

Czech: keporkak; keporkak dlouhoplautvý

Danish: buckelhval; pukkelhval; stubhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: bultrug; langarmvinvisch; pennvisch

English: bunch whale; hump; humpback whale; hunch; hunchback whale sources: Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species Identification Guide. Rome. 312 p.

English-United States: Humpback Whale sources: Charles Hussey

French: baleine à bosse; baleine à taquet; baleine tampon; jubarte; mégaptere; rorqual du Cap; rorqual keporkak; rorqual noueux

German: Buckelwal; Knurrwal; langhaendige Wal; Pflockfisch

Greek: Μεγάπτερη; Μεγάπτερη φάλαινα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greenlandic: keporkak

Icelandic: hnufubakur; skeljungur

Indonesian: paus bongkok

Italian: balena gobba; megattera sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: zato kujira

Kalaallisut: keporkak

Korean: hog-deung-gorae

Latvian: valzius

Lithuanian: kuprotasis banginis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Malagasi: trozona be trafo

Norwegian: knölhval; knølhval; stor rorhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: knølhval sources: Gemein. Naturgesch. Thier., 2(1):21

Norwegian Nynorsk: knølkval sources: Gemein. Naturgesch. Thier., 2(1):21

Nynorsk (Norwegian): knølkval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: długopłetwiec; pletwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia jubarte; baleia-corcunda; jubarte

Russian: dlinnorukyi polosatik; gorbach; gorbatyi kit; veselyi kit; горбатый кит sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: kit grbavec sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ambaqui; ballena cantora; ballena de aletas grandes; ballena jorobada; guabarte; gubarta; jibarte; jorobada; rorqual jorobado; yubarta

Swedish: hnunfurbakur; knölval; puckelval

Turkish: kambur balina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Горбань; Горбатий кит; Горбач; Кит горбатий sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil cefngrwm sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Yupik: aghvesiiq; kaipokak

Literature

original description	Borowski, G. H. (1781). Gemeinnüzzige[sic] Naturschichte des Tierreichs,.. G. L. Lange, Berlin and Stralsund.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Clapham, P. J. and J. G. Mead. (1999). Megaptera novaeangliae. Mammalian Species 604:1--9.
additional source	Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
additional source	Stacey, P. J. and P. W. Arnold. (1999). Orcaella brevirostris. Mammalian Species 616:1--8.
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, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (92 publications)
GenBank (2321 nucleotides; 964 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137092