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 Physeteridae > Genus Physeter

Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Physeter*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Physeter catodon*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: potvis

Albanian: kashalot

Aleutian: adagig; aggadakhgik

Arabic: anbar

Balochi: bahran

Catalan: catxalot

Croatian: ulješura

Czech: vorvaň obrovský; vorvaň tuponosý

Danish: kaskelot; spermacethval

Dutch: kaizilot; potvisch

English: chocolate whale; spermacet whale; trompe whale; trumpo

English-United States: Sperm Whale sources: Charles Hussey

French: cachalot; cachalot à dents en faucille; cachalot à dents pointues

Georgian: chigat

German: Pottfisch

Greek: fysitiras

Greenlandic: kegutilik; kigitulik

Icelandic: búrhvalur; tweld-hval

Indonesian: paus lodan

Israel (Hebrew): roshtan

Italian: capodoglio; cascialotto; fisetere; organante

Japanese: makko kujira

Kalaallisut: kegutilik; kigitulik

Korean: hyang-gorae

Koryak: koiapchak

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

Malagasi: trozona amam-taimbo; trozona be loha

Maltese: gabdoll

Norwegian: bardhvalur; burdhvalur; burr-hval; huns-hval; kascelot; kaskelot; knobbe-herre; potfisk; spermhval; storhufd; sue-hval

Polish: olbrotowick; potwal olbrotowiec sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: cachalote

Russian: bolshoi plavun; kashalot; spermatsetovyi kit; wolkmorskoi

Sindhi: bahran

Spanish, Castillian: ballena esperma; cachalote; chacalote; fiseter; guapo

Swedish: pottfisk

Tamil: ratchatha thimingalam

Thai: plawan huathui

Turkish: ispermeçet; íspermeçet; İspermeçet; ispermecet balinasi; İspermecet balinası; kasalot sources: Turkish PESI focal point;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil sberm

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
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	ITIS database
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	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	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.

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External Links

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Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Physeter macrocephalus. 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:137119