WoRMS name details
Catodon Linnaeus, 1761
380530 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380530)
unaccepted (synonym)
Genus
- Subgenus Catodon (Meganeuron)
- Species Catodon (Meganeuron) krefftii Gray, 1865 accepted as Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
- Species Catodon albicans Lacépède, 1804 accepted as Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) (synonym)
- Species Catodon australis Wall, 1851 accepted as Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
- Species Catodon candicans Lesson, 1828 accepted as Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) (synonym)
- Species Catodon colneti Gray, 1850 accepted as Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
- Species Catodon macrocephalus Lacépède, 1804 accepted as Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
- Species Catodon sibbaldi Fleming, 1828 accepted as Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) (synonym)
- Species Catodon polycyphus Lesson, 1827 (uncertain > nomen dubium, incertae sedis)
- Species Catodon polyscyphus Gray, 1866 (uncertain > nomen dubium, incertae sedis)
- Species Catodon svineval Lacépède, 1804 (uncertain > nomen dubium, incertae sedis)
marine, terrestrial
Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, [The Swedish Fauna containing the Animals of the Kingdom of Sweden: Distributed by Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, with Differences of Species, Synonyms of Authors, Names of Inhabitants, Places of Birth,]Descriptionibus insectorum. <em>Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae, Stockhom, Sweden.</em> 48:1-578. [Copepoda Monoculus, :497-499]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100333 [details] 
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Catodon Linnaeus, 1761. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380530 on 2025-04-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, [The Swedish Fauna containing the Animals of the Kingdom of Sweden: Distributed by Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, with Differences of Species, Synonyms of Authors, Names of Inhabitants, Places of Birth,]Descriptionibus insectorum. <em>Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae, Stockhom, Sweden.</em> 48:1-578. [Copepoda Monoculus, :497-499]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100333 [details]
