Marine Lexicon
Marine Lexicon
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Marine Lexicon is a cooperation initiative between Portugal and Norway, funded by EEA Grants and CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, aiming at the construction of a thesaurus of European common names of marine mammals (cetaceans, seals and sea lions, and sirenians), symbolic elements (sea monsters, hybrid beings, folklore creatures) represented in the early modern age (15th-18th centuries) and place names related to the exploitation of marine mammals.
For now, a thesaurus with words and expressions from 10 languages, including old versions of the respective languages, will be included in a database; five South European and five North European. All are languages from countries and regions with a coastal line. The thesaurus is presented here, allowing scholars and the public to search within the true ocean of possibilities that is the European vocabulary about marine mammals.
Thesaurus
- Balaena mysticetus
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata
- Balaenoptera borealis
- Balaenoptera edeni
- Balaenoptera musculus
- Balaenoptera physalus
- Cystophora cristata
- Delphinapterus leucas
- Delphinus delphis
- Dolphin (generic)
- Erignathus barbatus
- Eschrichtius robustus
- Eubalaena glacialis
- Globicephala macrorhynchus
- Globicephala melas
- Grampus griseus
- Halichoerus grypus
- Hyperoodon ampullatus
- Kogia breviceps
- Kogia sima
- Lagenodelphis hosei
- Lagenorhynchus acutus
- Lagenorhynchus albirostris
- Megaptera novaeangliae
- Mesoplodon bidens
- Mesoplodon densirostris
- Mesoplodon europaeus
- Mesoplodon grayi
- Mesoplodon mirus
- Monodon monoceros
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Orcinus orca
- Pagophilus groenlandicus/ Phoca groenlandica
- Peponocephala electra
- Phoca vitulina
- Phocoena phocoena
- Physeter macrocephalus
- Pseudorca crassidens
- Pusa hispida/ Phoca hispida
- Seal (generic)
- Stenella coeruleoalbe
- Stenella frontalis
- Steno bredanensis
- Tursiops truncatus
- Whale (generic)
- Ziphius cavirostris
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