Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede 1804
Description
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 —Common Minke Whale
Balaenoptera acuto-rostrata Lacépède, 1804 p.134; Type locality- France; Kuroda, 1938 p.11.
B. acutorostrata: Won, 1958 p.433; Won, 1967 p.78; Won, 1968 p.240; Kim et al., 2000 p.60; Kim, 2004 p.222.
Range: Balaenoptera acutorostrata consistently inhabits the East Sea and Yellow Sea (Fig. 75). Observations peak in spring followed by autumn, during migration. This species swims primarily in the mid-Yellow Sea and continental shelf of the East Sea but rarely comes into the coastal waters of Korea.
Remarks: The subspecies B. a. scammoni Deméré, 1986 was assigned to the population living in the North Pacific Ocean. However, the population of B. acutorostrata in the East Sea between Korea and Japan might represent a new subspecies (Archer et al. 2013).
Conservation status: All populations of this species are included in CITES Appendix I (except the population in the waters of West Greenland is included in Appendix II).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Balaenoptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lacepede
- Species
- acutorostrata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede, 1804 sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Lacepede, B. G. (1804) Histoire Naturelle des Cetacees. Chez Plassan, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 316 pp. [in French]
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Won, P. H. (1958) A hand list of Korean mammals. Bulletin of Kyung-Hee University, 1, 427 - 460.
- Won, P. H. (1967) Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna and flora of Korea. Fol. 7. Mammals. Ministry of Education, Seoul, 663 pp. [in Korean]
- Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
- Kim, Z. G., Lee, J. U., Baik, C. I., Sohn, H. S., Park, C. S., Lee, D. W., Choi, K. H., Hong, B. Q., Kim, S. T., Park, J. H., Cho, Y. M., Cha, H. K. & Hwang, K. S. (2000) Whales and Dolphins off Korean Peninsula. National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Busan, 137 pp. [in Korean]
- Kim, Z. G. (2004) Suborder Pinnipedia & Order Cetacea. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 184 - 254. [in Korean]
- Archer, F. I., Morin, P. A., Hancock-Hanser, B. L., Robertson, K. M., Leslie, M. S., Berube, M., Panigada, S. & Taylor, B. L. (2013) Mitogenomic phylogenetics of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus spp.): genetic evidence for revision of subspecies. PLoS ONE, 8 (5), e 63396. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0063396