AnAge entry for Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Classification (HAGRID: 02278)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Cetacea (Taxon entry)
Family: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Balaenoptera
- Species
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata
- Common name
- Common minke whale
- Synonyms
- Balaena minima, Balaenoptera rostrata, Balaena rostrata
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 50 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 542
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
These animals have been estimated to live up to 50 years in the wild [0542].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 2,740 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 2,740 days
- Gestation
- 312 days
- Weaning
- 183 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 470 days
- Weight at birth
- 320,000 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 7,500,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0447] Pieter Folkens et al. (2002), National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180524
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9767
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