| Species fact sheet | by Global Register of Migratory Species - www.groms.de |
| Use the GROMS database for dynamic search for migratory species, new links and references. |
| Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Lacépède, 1804 |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Balaenopteridae |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| English: | Northern minke whale, Common minke whale, Little piked whale |
| French: | Petit rorqual |
| Spanish: | Rorcual menor, Ballena picuda |
| German: | Zwergwal There's a German version of this page!) |
| Norwegian: | Vågehval, Nordlig vågehval, Vanlig vågehval (There's a Norwegian version of this page!) |
| Migration: | interoceanic |
| Regions: | |
| CMS-Status: | NL |
| Red List 2000: | LRnt |
| CITES: | I/II |
More about whales and dolphins from:
Riede, K. (2001): Global Register of Migratory Species. Weltregister wandernder Tierarten. (p. 64-68)
Recommended link(s):
| ARKive | Northern hemisphere minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata): description, pictures, movies... |
| www.ifaw.org | International Fund for Animal Welfare (English/German) |
| www.minkewhale.org | The Minke Whale Project (a combined initiative of James Cook University, the Museum of Tropical Queensland and Undersea Explorer) |
| OBIS-SEAMAP | Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations taxonomy, discription, distribution (map), ecology & behaviour, feeding & prey, threats & status of the Northern minke whale |
| www.acsonline.org | American Cetacean Society Fact Sheet about the Minke whale |
| Australian Museum | australian museum online - factsheets: Minke whale |
| sea.unep-wcmc.org | UNEP-WCMC Species Database (German/English), showing taxonomy ("Names"), distribution ("Verbreitung"), status ("Status"), legal sources ("Legal"), text references ("Referenzen"), connotations ("Anmerkungen"), links to other databases ("Betriebsmittel"), and (links to) pictures (on other homepages) ("Photos") concerning the Minke whale |
| Animal Diversity Web | University of Michigan - Museum of Zoology |
| Gbif | Global Biodiversity Information Facility |
To gather more information about whales in general see the link collection at connotea.org: cetacea
Please help us by updating our link collection via connotea!
Feedback: mail to: Klaus Riede
(Last update: 17.7.2007 by A. Tappenhölter)