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Balaenoptera acutorostrata   Lacépède, 1804

Northern minke whale

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Peru country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: CITES: I/r, 01/01/86; I/w, 24/10/01 (Ref. 84485). C: Ref. 84485; M: Ref. 1394.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/pe.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber, 1993
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Cetartiodactyla () > Balaenopteridae (rorquals, finback whales)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

; salobre; rango de profundidad 0 - 732 m (Ref. 116169).   Tropical; 90°N - 90°S, 180°W - 180°E

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Introducciones

Circumglobal: Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata: North Atlantic; Balaenoptera acutorostrata scammoni: North Pacific (Ref. 1522).

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 1,070 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 1394); 1070 cm TL (female); peso máximo publicado: 14.0 t (Ref. 1394)

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Distributed from the tropics to the ice edges in both hemispheres. They can be seen offshore, and more often in coastal and inshore areas. They are rarely seen in some tropical pelagic areas. Minimum depth from the Pacific (Ref. 83490) and maximum depth based from their food in the Atlantic (Ref. 83488). Feeds on krill and small schooling fishes (Ref. 1394). Oceanodromous (Ref. 75906). Distributed from the tropics to the ice edges in both hemispheres. They can be seen offshore, and more often in coastal and inshore areas. They are rarely seen in some tropical pelagic areas (Ref. 1394). They are known to be 'gulpers,' feeding in separate events, often lunging at large schools of fish (Ref. 122680). Also feeds on krill (Ref. 1394). Oceanodromous (Ref. 75906).

Main reference Referencias | Coordinador | Colaboradores

Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. (Ref. 1394)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 16 March 2018

CITES status (Ref. 108899)


CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial
FAO - pesquerías: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Fuentes de Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(pesquerías: species profile; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia (Go, búsqueda) | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 0.2 - 11.2, mean 2.9 (based on 10218 cells).
Resiliencia (Ref. 69278) Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (K=0.17; tm=8).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): High vulnerability (63 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.