, Balaenoptera musculus photo, La Jolla, California, 21256

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Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are endangered due to twentieth century whaling and currently threatened by human act. Knowledge about the movement ecology of endangered species is needed to identify biologically important areas and the spatio-temporal scale of potential human impacts on species.

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The Blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. It is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The Blue whale was once abundant in nearly all the Earth's oceans until the end of the 19th century.

Pygmy Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda Sri Lanka Tony Wu Underwater Photography

blue whale, (Balaenoptera musculus), the most massive animal ever to have lived, a species of baleen whale that weighs approximately 150 tons and may attain a length of more than 30 metres (98 feet). The largest accurately measured blue whale was a 29.5-metre female that weighed 180 metric tons (nearly 200 short [U.S.] tons), but there are.

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Balaenoptera musculus Protected Status ESA Endangered Throughout Its Range MMPA Protected Throughout Its Range MMPA Depleted Throughout Its Range CITES Appendix II Throughout Its Range SPAW Annex II Throughout the Wider Caribbean Region Quick Facts Weight Up to 330,000 pounds Length Up to 110 feet Lifespan Estimated at around 80 to 90 years Threats

Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) entangled in fishing net. Mirissa, Sri Lanka

The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) found in the Indian Ocean and the Southern Pacific Ocean . Contents 1 Taxonomy 2 Description 3 Range 4 Conservation status 5 Specimens 6 References 7 External links Taxonomy

Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda about to dive, with dorsal fin clearly visible

Three subspecies have been designated: what has been considered the largest, B. musculus intermedia, found in Antarctic waters; B. musculus musculus in the Northern Hemisphere; and B. musculus brevicauda, from the subantarctic zone of the southern Indian Ocean and south western Pacific Ocean, also colloquially known as the "pygmy" blue whale. Our knowledge of the phylogeny of the baleen.

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The largest extant aquatic mammalians, the baleen whales such as the blue whale Balaenoptera musculus, achieve lengths of up to 30 m (Mizroch et al., 1984), and weights of 130 tonnes (190 tonnes.

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Subspecies: Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda Subspecies: Balaenoptera musculus indica Subspecies: Balaenoptera musculus intermedia Subspecies: Balaenoptera musculus musculus Synonyms (since 1950) Sibbaldius sulfureus Balaena musculus Taxonomic data is courtesy of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) See ITIS metadata in XML

Los pigmeos de la ballena azul (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) heces flotando en el mar

The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda ) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) found in the Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean. Show More P starts with Appearance

Pygmy Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda)

The animals of the northern Indian Ocean, from the Arabian Sea to Southeast Asia, are distinct from Southern Hemisphere blue whales in call pattern and reproductive season. They are often regarded as a separate subspecies B. m. indica, although the distinguishing characters of this form are poorly defined.

Pygmy Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) in the waters of Indonesia, coming up to the

A proposal to place the blue whale in the monotypic genus Sibbaldius (Barnes and McLeod 1984) has not been accepted by subsequent authors (e.g., Jones et al. 1986, 1992; Mead and Brownell, in Wilson and Reeder 1993, 2005).Includes brevicauda (pygmy blue whale) as a subspecies (Mead and Brownell).Sometimes the Northern and Southern hemisphere stocks are regarded as separate subspecies (musculus.

Pygmy Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) Flickr

In Australian waters during the austral summer, pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) occur predictably in two distinct feeding areas off western and southern Australia. As with other blue whale subspecies, outside the austral summer their distribution and movements are poorly understood. In order to describe the migratory.

Le rorqual bleu (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) sousespèces de baleine bleue, Mirissa, Sri

The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) found in the Indian Ocean and the Southern Pacific Ocean . Taxonomy The pygmy blue whale [2] formed from a founder group of Antarctic blue whales about 20,000 years ago, around the Last Glacial Maximum.

Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) subspecies of blue whale, Mirissa, Sri Lanka

First satellite-tracked movements of pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) in New Zealand waters

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Blue whales ( Balaenoptera musculus) are endangered due to twentieth century whaling and currently threatened by human activities. In Australia, they feed in the Great Southern Australian.

, Balaenoptera musculus photo, La Jolla, California, 21256

The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 tonnes (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the largest animal known ever to have existed.