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

Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Globicephala*	Lesson, 1828	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Globicephala melaena*	(Traill, 1809)	orthographic variant
*Globicephala melaena*	(Traill, 1809)	synonym

Children

Globicephala melas melas (Traill, 1809)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: langvinloodswalvis

Arabic: kouraoui arras achaii

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

Catalan: cap d'olla; cap d'olla negre

Croatian: bjelogrii dupin; kit debeloglavac

Czech: kulohlavec černý

Danish: grind; langluffet grindehval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: griend

English: American black-fish; Atlantic blackfish; caa'ing whale; common blackfish; common pilot whale; driving whale; long-finned pilot whale; northern pilot whale; pothead; roundhead; round-headed porpoise; social whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Long-finned Pilot Whale sources: Charles Hussey

Euskera: izurde pilotua

Faroese: grindahvalur; grindaquealur

Finnish: grindvalas; pallopaa

French: cachelot svineval; chaudron; dauphin pilote; déducteur; globicéphale commun; globicéphale conducteur; globicéphale noir sources: 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]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

Galician: caldeiro

German: Grindwal; Schwarzwal

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

Greenlandic: nisarnaq

Icelandic: grindhvalur; leiftur; marsvin; nydingur

Indonesian: paus hitam

Israel (Hebrew): natav shachor

Italian: delfino pilota; globicefalo; globicefalo nero

Kalaallisut: nisarnaq

Lithuanian: paprastoji grinda sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Maltese: baliena sewda

Norwegian: grinde; grindhval; grinzehval; svinehval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: grindhval sources: Nicholson's J. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 22:81

Norwegian Nynorsk: grindkval sources: Nicholson's J. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 22:81

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

Polish: albrzymi delfin; grindwal długopłetwy sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia piloto de peitoral longa; boca de panela; cachalote-añao

Russian: grindy; sharogolovyi delfin; обыкновенная гринда sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: obloglavka sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena piloto; cabeza de buzo; calderón común; calderón de aleta larga; calderón negro; globicefalo negro; morfin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: grindval

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

Ukrainian: Гринда звичайна; Звичайна гринда sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil pengrwn

Literature

original description	Traill, T. S. (1809). Description of a new species of whale, Delphinus melas. In a letter from Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D. to Mr. Nicholson. Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. February, 1809:81--83.
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	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web.
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]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
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	Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.
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	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.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (78 nucleotides; 106 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809). 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:137097