Balaenoptera musculus Blue whale

Balaenoptera musculus is commonly referred to as Blue whale. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

4276 

AphiaID:

137090 

Scientific:

Balaenoptera musculus 

German:

Blauwal 

English:

Blue Whale 

Category:

Däggdjur 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Mammalia (Class) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Balaenopteridae (Family) > Balaenoptera (Genus) > musculus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Alaska (Western Atlantic), Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Antarctica, Arctic (North Polar Sea), Australia, Azores, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada Eastern Pacific, Chile, Christmas Islands, Circumtropic, Comores, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, European Coasts, Fiji, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Greenland, Guam, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico (East Pacific), Micronesia, Myanmar, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Palau, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Réunion , Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Scandinavia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, the Mediterranean Sea, the Seychelles, Timor, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamoto Islands, Tuvalu, Uruguay, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna 

Sea depth:

0 - 500 Meter 

Size:

1023.62" - 1322.83" (2600cm - 3360cm) 

Weight:

200 Tonnen 

Temperature:

28.4 °F - 82.4 °F (-2°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Fish (little fishes), Krill, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Appendix I (trade generally prohibited)) 

Red List:

Endangered (EN) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Balaenoptera acutorostrata
  Minkwal, Zwergwal, Nördlicher Zwergwal
• 
  Balaenoptera bonaerensis
  Südlicher Zwergwal
• 
  Balaenoptera borealis
  Seiwal
• 
  Balaenoptera edeni
  Brydewal, Edenwal
• 
  Balaenoptera musculus
  Blauwal
• 
  Balaenoptera omurai
  Omurawal
• 
  Balaenoptera physalus
  Finnwal

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-03-31 10:23:30 

Last edit:

2020-04-01 17:27:39 

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