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Balaenoptera acutorostrata   Lacépède, 1804

Northern minke whale

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Bahamas 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:
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/bf.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.caricom-fisheries.com/bahamas-fisheries
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 Populärnamn | synonymer | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

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

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

; brackvatten; djupintervall 0 - 732 m (Ref. 116169).   Tropical; 90°N - 90°S, 180°W - 180°E

Utbredning Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

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

Length at first maturity / Size / Vikt / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 1,070 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 1394); 1070 cm TL (female); publicerad maxvikt: 14.0 t (Ref. 1394)

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. 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).

Main reference referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

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

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

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

CITES status (Ref. 108899)


CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Fiskeri: kommersiell
FAO - fiskeri: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Ytterligare information

Populärnamn
synonymer
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Reproduktion
Könsmognad
Lek
Fecundity
Ägg
Egg development
Age/Size
Tillväxt
Length-weight
Length-length
Morfologi
Larver
Abundans
referenser
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Internet-källor

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

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 0.2 - 11.2, mean 2.9 (based on 10218 cells).
Resiliens (Ref. 69278) Mellan, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid 1,4-4,4 år (K=0.17; tm=8).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Very high vulnerability (79 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.