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Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Taxonomy
Balaenoptera acutorostrata was named by Lacépède (1804). It is extant. Its type locality is Cherbourg, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in France.

It was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera rostrata by Van Beneden and Gervais (1880); it was recombined as Pterobalaena acutorostrata by Hassanin et al. (2012).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1780Balaena rostrata Fabricius p. 40
1804Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède
1822Balaena rostrata Rudolphi pp. 27-40
1836Balaena rostrata Cuvier p. 182
1836Rorqualus boops Cuvier p. 321
1837Rorqualus minor Hamilton p. 142
1842Rorqualus rostratus De Kay p. 130
1847Physalus (Rorqualus) boops Gray
1847Balaena rostrata Nilsson p. 632
1849Pterobalaena minor Eschricht p. 109
1850Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 32
1864Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 227
1865Balaenoptera rostrata Flower p. 394
1866Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 188
1868Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 3
1877Sibbaldius mondinii Capellini p. 423
1880Balaenoptera rostrata Van Beneden and Gervais p. 149
1904Balaenoptera acutorostrata Trouessart p. 783
1904Balaenoptera rostrata Trouessart p. 783
1912Balaenoptera rostrata Turner p. 59
1922Balaenoptera acutorostrata Oliver p. 563
1952Balaenoptera acutorostrata Sherman p. 99
1963Balaenoptera acutorostrata Scheffer and Rice p. 9
1977Balaenoptera acutorostrata Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1987Balaenoptera acutorostrata Pilleri p. 113
1991Balaenoptera acutorostrata Vidal p. 6
1998Balaenoptera acutorostrata Rice p. 70
2005Balaenoptera acutorostrata Mead and Brownell p. 724
2006Balaenoptera acutorostrata Bouetel and Muizon p. 386
2008Balaenoptera acutorostrata Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2008Balaenoptera acutorostrata Uhen et al. p. 619
2008Balaenoptera acutorostrata Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 243
2011Balaenoptera acutorostrata Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2012Pterobalaena acutorostrata Hassanin et al. p. 43 figs. Fig. 1
2014Balaenoptera acutorostrata Tsai et al. p. 86
2015Balaenoptera acutorostrata Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10
2015Balaenoptera acutorostrata Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2017Balaenoptera acutorostrata Tsai and Boessenecker p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
—Chaeomysticeti()
—Balaenomorpha
superfamilyThalassotherii
familyBalaenopteridae
genusBalaenoptera
speciesacutorostrata

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède 1804 [minke whale]
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Invalid names: Balaena rostrata Fabricius 1780 [synonym], Pterobalaena minor Eschricht 1849 [synonym], Rorqualus boops Cuvier 1836 [synonym], Rorqualus minor Hamilton 1837 [synonym], Sibbaldius mondinii Capellini 1877 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatitesubo
Form: roller-shapedo
Ontogeny: modification of partso
Environment: marinesubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquaticsubo
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: suspension feederf
Reproduction: viviparouso
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-06-08 12:11:09
Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order
References: Uhen 2004, Nowak 1991

Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Holocene or 7.24600 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (24 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Neogene23.03 - 2.58South Pacific Balaenoptera rostrata (99587)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Chile (Atacama) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (55535)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (52582)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Italy Balaenoptera acutorostrata (84944 153710)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Japan (Hokkaido) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (45803)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Italy Balaenoptera acutorostrata (153708 153711)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588USA (Florida) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (181317)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Italy (Piacenza) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (55542)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (Oregon) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (59062)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Denmark Balaenoptera acutorostrata (76050 96127)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (New Brunswick) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (73671)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen Balaenoptera acutorostrata (170317)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Denmark Balaenoptera acutorostrata (122633 159721)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Chile Balaenoptera acutorostrata (167961)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Alaska) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (167963)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Japan Balaenoptera acutorostrata (82088)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (167962)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Oregon) Balaenoptera acutorostrata (224273)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0New Caledonia Balaenoptera acutorostrata (83456)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0France Balaenoptera acutorostrata (type locality: 86924)