Balaenoptera ricei, Rice’s whale

Balaenoptera ricei   Rosel, Wilcox, Yamada & Mullin, 2021

Rice’s whale
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Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

पिलाजिक; गहराई सीमा 150 - 410 m (संदर्भ 127273).  Tropical

Distribution देश | ऐफ ऐ ओ क्षेत्र | Ecosystems | संयोग | भूमिका

Western Central Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico.

Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age

परिपक्व अवधि: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description आकृति विज्ञान

Medium-sized rorqual whale. Nasals taper and curve laterally at the posterior end and have a smooth margin, meeting the medial-posterior margin of the ascending process of the maxilla; has broad gap between the nasal bones that does not narrow posteriorly created in part by the frontal bones which protrude anteriorly between the posterior end of the nasals. Body color: uniformly dark charcoal gray above, including both the upper and lower jaws, and light to pinkish countershading ventrally. The flippers are uniformly dark.

जीवविज्ञान     शब्द संग्रह (उदाहरणार्थ epibenthic)

The only year-round resident baleen whale found mainly along the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (Refs. 127256, 127273).

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference संदर्भ | संयोजक | सहयोगीयो

Rosel, P.E., L.A. Wilcox, T.K. Yamada and K.D. Mullin 2021 A new species of baleen whale (Balaenoptera) from the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of its geographic distribution. Marine Mammal Science. 37(2):577-610. (संदर्भ 127273)

IUCN Red List Status (संदर्भ 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Critically Endangered (CR) (D); Date assessed: 01 September 2021

CITES status (संदर्भ 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (संदर्भ 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses


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साधन

अधिक जानकारी

Trophic Ecology
Food items (preys)
संघटक आहार
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परभक्षी
पारिस्थितिकी
Population dynamics
बाढ़
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Mass conversion
बहुतायत
Life cycle
पुनरुत्पत्ति
परिपक्व अवधि
Fecundity
मछलीऔ का अंडे देना
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
Physiology
Oxygen consumption

इंटरनेट स्रोत

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, खोज) | Zoological Record

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