bowhead whale
Species of mammal
Also known as Balaena mysticetus · Greenland right whale · Arctic whale
- Scientific name
- Balaena mysticetus
3
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- 3.Stated in Systema Naturae. 10th edition, Volume 1
- Balaena mysticetus
- Rank
- species
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- species
- Parent taxon
- Balaena
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- Balaena
- Conservation status
- least concern
1
Sources- 1.Stated in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2Retrieved 2023-01-02
- least concern
Overview
All data
89 statements · 48% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Taxon common name
- Bowhead whale
1
- Ballena Boreal
1
- Ballena de Groenlandia
1
- Baleine de Grande Baie
1
- Baleine du Groenland
1
- Bowhead
2
Sources- 1.Stated in IUCN Red ListRetrieved 2016-10-21
- 2.Stated in Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names
- Bowhead Whale
2
Sources- 1.Stated in IUCN Red ListRetrieved 2016-10-21
- 2.Stated in Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names
- Greenland Right Whale
2
Sources- 1.Stated in IUCN Red ListRetrieved 2016-10-21
- 2.Stated in Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names
Show 6 moreShow less
- Arctic Right Whale
- Grönlandwal
- grønlandshval
- ballena groenlandesa
- grenlandski kit
1
- arfivik
- Bowhead whale
- Gestation period
- 11 months
1
- 11 months
- Started
- 200th millennium BCE
- Short name
- B. mysticetus
On other databases
58 identifiers linking bowhead whale across the web's reference databases
- ADW taxon IDBalaena_mysticetus
- AnimalBase ID474
- ARKive ID (archived)bowhead-whale/balaena-mysticetus
- ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID1006393
- BioLib taxon ID20745
- BOLD Systems taxon ID26409
- Canadian Encyclopedia article IDbowhead-whale
- Catalogue of Life IDKF7Q
- CITES Species+ ID7903
- CMS IDbalaena-mysticetus
- DORIS ID2804
- Dyntaxa ID233174
- ECOS ID4615
- Elhuyar ZTH ID032664
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDanimal/bowhead-right-whale
- Encyclopedia of Life ID46559419
- EPPO CodeBALEMY
- EUNIS ID for species1359
- Fossilworks taxon ID64683
- Freebase ID/m/01sf9c
- GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)2440330
- GND ID4528843-4
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDbalena-franca-artica
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0162025
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDgrønlandshval
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2377898
- INaturalist taxon ID74103
- IRMNG ID11173308
- ITIS TSN180533
- IUCN taxon ID2467
- J9U entity ID987007283977505171
- KBpedia IDBowheadWhale
- Lex IDgrønlandshval
- MeSH descriptor IDD050642
- MeSH tree codeB01.050.150.900.649.313.875.865.130
- MSW ID14300005
- Museum-digital tag ID4318
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDtaxon/f60633e9-13e3-42fe-bd76-3e5c65c0abcd
- NatureServe Explorer ID2.100016
- NBIC scientific name ID48137
- NBN System KeyNHMSYS0000376882
- NCBI taxonomy ID27602
- Nederlands Soortenregister ID181713
- NOAA Fisheries Species Directory IDbowhead-whale
- NWT Species IDbalaena-mysticetus
- OBIS ID137086
- Observation.org taxon ID80606
- Open Tree of Life ID397231
- Paleobiology Database taxon ID64683
- SeaLifeBase ID69009
- Species at Risk public registry ID331
- TAXREF ID60848
- UMLS CUIC1001592
- Vikidia article IDfr:Baleine_boréale
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID02066653-n
- WoRMS-ID for taxa137086
- Yale LUX IDconcept/596c2b2f-2b56-49ac-a925-2bd2aabd4403
- ZooBank ID for name or act9A3B1DAD-0793-4CB0-A085-E2D213846E60