largest species of toothed whale
  • cachalot
  • Physeter macrocephalus
  • spermaceti whale
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Physeter macrocephalus
    English
    sperm whale
    largest species of toothed whale
    • cachalot
    • Physeter macrocephalus
    • spermaceti whale

    Statements

    instance of
    taxon
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    subclass of
    whale
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    image
    Mother and baby sperm whale.jpg
    5,115 × 2,877; 10.05 MB
    media legend
    Un catxalot femella i la seva cria (Catalan)
    sex or gender
    female organism
    0 references
    short name
    P. macrocephalus (multiple languages)
    1 reference
    based on heuristic
    inferred from taxon name
    taxon common name
    Sperm Whale (English)
    1 reference
    stated in
    IUCN Red List
    retrieved
    21 October 2016
    Ballena Esperma (Spanish)
    1 reference
    stated in
    IUCN Red List
    retrieved
    20 October 2016
    Cachalote (Spanish)
    1 reference
    stated in
    IUCN Red List
    retrieved
    20 October 2016
    Cachalot (French)
    1 reference
    stated in
    IUCN Red List
    retrieved
    20 October 2016
    Cachelot (English)
    1 reference
    stated in
    IUCN Red List
    retrieved
    21 October 2016
    Pot Whale (English)
    1 reference
    stated in
    IUCN Red List
    retrieved
    21 October 2016
    Sperm whale (English)
    1 reference
    stated in
    ARKive
    Spermacet Whale (English)
    1 reference
    stated in
    IUCN Red List
    retrieved
    21 October 2016
    抹香鯨 (Chinese)
    1 reference
    stated in
    Catalogue of Life in Taiwan
    TaiBNET ID
    380552
    retrieved
    3 December 2016
    spermhval (Norwegian Bokmål)
    1 reference
    retrieved
    13 September 2022
    NBIC scientific name ID
    48186
    кашалот (Russian)
    0 references
    capodoglio (Italian)
    0 references
    уљешура (Serbian (Cyrillic script))
    0 references
    glavač (Slovenian)
    2 references
    stated in
    Q140332069
    stated in
    Q140355365
    kit glavač (Slovenian)
    2 references
    reference URL
    https://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137119
    title
    PESI portal - Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 (English)
    retrieved
    1 July 2026
    reference URL
    https://www.morigenos.org/raznolikost-kitov-in-delfinov-v-sredozemskem-morju/
    title
    Raznolikost kitov in delfinov v Sredozemskem morju (Slovenian)
    publication date
    25 April 2025
    language of work or name
    Slovene
    retrieved
    1 July 2026
    this taxon is source of
    ambergris
    0 references
    spermaceti
    0 references
    sperm oil
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    named after
    spermaceti
    0 references
    start time
    3600000 years BCE
    0 references
    main food source
    Teuthida
    0 references
    diel cycle
    diurnality
    0 references
    Commons gallery
    Physeter macrocephalus
    0 references
    Commons category
    Physeter macrocephalus
    0 references

    Identifiers

    J9U entity ID
    987007565839205171
    subject named as (monolingual text)
    Sperm whale (English)
    ראשתן גדול ראש (Hebrew)
    حوت العنبر (Arabic)
    0 references
    MeSH descriptor ID
    D050661
    subject named as
    Sperm Whale
    0 references
    UNII
    86KPS8S56Q
    0 references
    AnimalBase ID
    479
    1 reference
    stated in
    AnimalBase
    retrieved
    7 February 2021
    BioLib taxon ID
    20872
    0 references
    CITES Species+ ID
    10761
    1 reference
    stated in
    Species+
    retrieved
    10 September 2015
    CONABIO ID
    185065MAMIFB501112
    0 references
    Dyntaxa ID
    233160
    1 reference
    stated in
    Dyntaxa
    retrieved
    29 December 2020
    ECOS ID
    8363
    0 references
    EPPO Code
    QHYSMA
    0 references
    KBpedia ID
    SpermWhale
    1 reference
    stated in
    KBpedia
    retrieved
    9 July 2020
    Lex ID
    kaskelothval
    0 references
    MyBIS species ID
    47502
    0 references
    Queensland Biota ID
    1015
    0 references
    RKD thesaurus ID
    80929
    0 references
    SeaLifeBase ID
    68882
    1 reference
    stated in
    SeaLifeBase
    retrieved
    20 November 2018
    TAXREF ID
    60949
    8 references
    stated in
    TAXREF v9.0
    retrieved
    24 September 2016
    stated in
    TAXREF v10.0
    retrieved
    26 December 2017
    stated in
    TAXREF v11.0
    retrieved
    2 January 2018
    stated in
    TAXREF v12.0
    retrieved
    2 November 2018
    stated in
    TAXREF v13.0
    retrieved
    31 December 2019
    stated in
    TAXREF v14.0
    retrieved
    23 December 2020
    stated in
    TAXREF v15.0
    retrieved
    20 January 2022
    stated in
    TAXREF v16.0
    retrieved
    6 January 2023
    WikiKids ID
    Potvis
    MediaWiki page ID
    42382
    0 references
    YSO ID
    38335
    subject named as (monolingual text)
    šlubboaifális (šládja) (Northern Sami)
    kaskelot (art) (Swedish)
    kaskelotti (laji) (Finnish)
    sperm whale (English)
    alternative name (monolingual text)
    cachalot (English)
    Physeter macrocephalus (Finnish)
    Physeter macrocephalus (English)
    1 reference
    stated in
    YSO-Wikidata mapping project
    retrieved
    12 August 2024
     
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