Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 
AphiaID: 137087

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Mysticeti > Balaenopteridae > Balaenoptera

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804
Synonymised taxa		Agaphelus gibbosus Cope, 1968 (synonym) Balaena gibbosa Cope, 1868 (synonym) Balaena microcephala Tomilin, 1957 (synonym) Balaena minima Rapp, 1837 (synonym) Balaena minima borealis Knox, 1838 (synonym) Balaena rostrata Fabricius, 1780 (synonym) Balaenoptera acutorostrata thalmaha Deraniyagala, 1963 (synonym) Balaenoptera acuturostrata Lacépède, 1804 (lapsus calami) Balaenoptera davidsoni Scammon, 1872 Balaenoptera eschrichtius Rasch, 1845 (synonym) Balaenoptera microcephala Gray, 1850 (synonym) Balaenoptera rostrata Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 (synonym) Balaenoptera thalmaha (synonym) Balaenoptera thalmaha thalmaha Deranyagala, 1963 (synonym) Pterobalaena minor Eschricht, 1849 (synonym) Pterobalaena minor bergensis Eschricht, 1849 (synonym) Pterobalaena minor groenlandica Eschricht, 1849 (synonym) Pterobalaena nana Barkow, 1862 (synonym) Pterobalaena nana pentadactyla Barkow, 1862 (synonym) Pterobalaena nana tetradactyla Barkow, 1862 (synonym) Pterobalaena pentadactyla Flower, 1865 (synonym) Rorqualus minor Hamilton, 1837 (synonym) Sibbaldius mondinii Capellini, 1877 (synonym)
Sources		original description: de Lacépède, B. G. E. (1804). Histoire naturelle des cétacées. In Buffon, Histoire naturelle, vol. 37:317. [details] 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 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p. [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Waring, G.T., J.M. Quintal and C.P. Fairfield (eds.). 2002. U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal dtock assessments, 2002. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS- NE- 169. 318 p. [details] 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., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] 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. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] from synonym: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details] [view taxon] from synonym: The Paleobiology database, available online at http://paleodb.org/ [details] [view taxon]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans minke-walvis  [details] Aleut agamakhchik  [details] Catalan rorqual d'aleta blanca  [details] Chukot kauchikan uiiut  [details] Czech plejtvák stikovitý  [details] Danish lille Rorhval  [details] Danish sildepisker  [details] Danish vågehval  [details] Dutch dwergfinvisch  [details] Dutch dwergvinvis  [details] English bagwhale  [details] English bay whale  [details] English beaked rorqual  [details] English common minke whale  [details] English Davidson's whale  [details] English dwarf minke whale  [details] English least rorqual  [details] English lesser finback  [details] English lesser piked whale  [details] English little finner  [details] English little piked whale  [details] English minke whale  [details] English Minkie's whale  [details] English northern minke whale  [details] English pikehead whale  [details] English rorqual aliblanco  [details] English sharp-headed finner whale  [details] English summer whale  [details] French baleine d'été  [details] French balenoptere a bec aigu  [details] French petit rorqual  [details] French rorqual à museau pointu  [details] French rorqual à rostre  [details] French rorqual mineur  [details] German Spitzkopf-Finnfisch  [details] German Zwergwal  [details] Hebrew לויתן גוץ  [details] Icelandic hrafureydur  [details] Icelandic hrefna  [details] Italian balenottera minore  [details] Italian balenottera rostrata  [details] Japanese koiwashi kujira  [details] Japanese kupokaru  [details] Japanese minku  [details] Kalaallisut chikagulik  [details] Korean mingkeu-gorae  [details] Lithuanian mažasis ruožuotis  [details] Malagasy trozona maran-doha  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Ρυγχοφάλαινα  [details] Norwegian minkehval  [details] Norwegian minkies hval  [details] Norwegian rebbehval  [details] Norwegian vaagehval  [details] Norwegian vaage-Qval  [details] Norwegian vågehval  [details] Norwegian Bokmål vågehval  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk vågekval  [details] Polish płetwal karłowaty  [details] Portuguese baleia minke  [details] Portuguese baleia-minke-ana  [details] Russian karlikovyi polosatik  [details] Russian malyi polosatika  [details] Russian minke  [details] Russian ostrogolovyi polosatik  [details] Russian ostromordyi polosatik  [details] Russian zalivov  [details] Russian или остроголовый полосатик  [details] Russian малый полосатик  [details] Slovenian Ščukasti kit  [details] Spanish ballena enana  [details] Spanish ballena menor  [details] Spanish ballena minke  [details] Spanish rorcual aliblanco  [details] Spanish rorcual de Minke  [details] Spanish rorcual enano  [details] Spanish rorcual menor  [details] Spanish rorcual picudo  [details] Spanish rorqual de aleta blanca  [details] Spanish rorqual pequeño  [details] Swedish spetsnäbbad finnfisk  [details] Swedish vikarehval  [details] Swedish vikval  [details] Swedish vinkval  [details] Thai plawan klaebkhribkhaodam  [details] Turkish bayağı minke balinası  [details] Ukrainian Смугач малий  [details] Welsh morfil pigfain  [details] Yupik languages chikagulik  [details] Yupik languages qungvughaq  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata Lacepede, 1804 Subspecies Balaenoptera acutorostrata scammoni Deméré, 1986 Subspecies Balaenoptera acutorostrata bonaerensis Deraniyagala, 1960 accepted as Balaenoptera bonaerensis Burmeister, 1867 Subspecies Balaenoptera acutorostrata davidsoni Tomilin, 1957 accepted as Balaenoptera acutorostrata scammoni Deméré, 1986 Subspecies Balaenoptera acutorostrata thalmaha Deraniyagala, 1963 accepted as Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
Environment		marine
Distribution		Antarctica [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Comores [details] Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Southern Bight [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] Tanzania [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] World Oceans [details]
Host of		Pennella balaenopterae Koren & Danielssen, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (76 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (442 nucleotides; 259 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Diet: schooling fish and various invertebrates [details] Dimensions: Length: male 22-32' (6.7-9.8 m), female 24-35' (7.3-10.7 m), at birth 8'+ (2.4 m+) [details] Distribution: On a small note in Dubar (1828) was written that this species was stranded in Blankenberge (Belgium) in 1837 (Dubar, J. (1828). Ostéographie de la baleine échouée à l'est du port d'Ostende, le 4 novembre 1827; précédée d'une notice sur la découverte et la dissection de ce Cétacée. Laurent Frères, Imprimeurs-Libraires: Bruxelles, Belgium. 61, 13 folded plates pp.) [details] Distribution: circum-global [details] Distribution: East Pacific; Eastern and Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific [details] Habitat: inshore to offshore [details] Holotype: None; name based on general accounts by authors and the description of a young individual stranded in 1791 near Cherbourg, France. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details] Morphology: Distinguishing characteristics: white flipper patches. Blow not readily visible. Colour is light grey with white belly. [details] Predators: Killer whale (Orcinus orca) [details] Type locality: Cherbourg, France [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 12 & 13) added on 2008-06-02 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 22:56:42 Balaenoptera acutorostrata added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:32:56 Common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:29:44 Minke whale feeding added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:33:15 Minke whale added on 2011-09-28 - author: Debergh, Heidi qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:35:11 Minke whale added on 2011-09-28 - author: Debergh, Heidi qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:36:09 Minke whale added on 2011-09-28 - author: Debergh, Heidi qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:36:22 Balaenoptera acutorostrata added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:36:36 Balaenoptera acutorostrata added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:38:16
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137087
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137087 on 2013-05-18