Balaenoptera acutorostrata   Lacépède, 1804

Northern minke whale

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Balaenoptera acutorostrata

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae

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

Pelagic-neritic; brackish; depth range 0 - 732 m (Ref. 116169).  Tropical; 90°N - 90°S, 180°W - 180°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

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

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 1,070 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 1394); 1070 cm TL (female); max. published weight: 14.0 t (Ref. 1394)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. 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).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

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)

Appendix I: International trade banned

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Fisheries: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 0.2 - 11.2, mean 2.9 (based on 10218 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.17; tm=8).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): High vulnerability (63 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.