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The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) found in the Indian Ocean and the Southern Pacific Ocean . Taxonomy The pygmy blue whale [2] formed from a founder group of Antarctic blue whales about 20,000 years ago, around the Last Glacial Maximum.


Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) entangled in fishing net. Mirissa, Sri Lanka

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are endangered due to twentieth century whaling and currently threatened by human act. Knowledge about the movement ecology of endangered species is needed to identify biologically important areas and the spatio-temporal scale of potential human impacts on species.


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The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) found in the Indian Ocean and the Southern Pacific Ocean . Contents 1 Taxonomy 2 Description 3 Range 4 Conservation status 5 Specimens 6 References 7 External links Taxonomy


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Blue whales ( Balaenoptera musculus) are endangered due to twentieth century whaling and currently threatened by human activities. In Australia, they feed in the Great Southern Australian.


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The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda ) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) found in the Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean. Show More P starts with Appearance


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Here, we determine whether the relatively low genetic diversity of pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) in Australia is due to natural causes or overexploitation. We apply recently developed analytical approaches in the largest genetic dataset ever compiled to study blue whales (297 samples collected after whaling and.


Pygmy Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda)

The largest extant aquatic mammalians, the baleen whales such as the blue whale Balaenoptera musculus, achieve lengths of up to 30 m (Mizroch et al., 1984), and weights of 130 tonnes (190 tonnes.


blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) Taken under … Jason isley Flickr

Blue whales ( Balaenoptera musculus) are endangered due to twentieth century whaling and currently threatened by human activities. In Australia, they feed in the Great Southern Australian Coastal Upwelling System (GSACUS) during the austral summer.


Le rorqual bleu (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) sousespèces de baleine bleue, Mirissa, Sri

The Blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. It is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The Blue whale was once abundant in nearly all the Earth's oceans until the end of the 19th century.


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First satellite-tracked movements of pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) in New Zealand waters


Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda about to dive, with dorsal fin clearly visible

The animals of the northern Indian Ocean, from the Arabian Sea to Southeast Asia, are distinct from Southern Hemisphere blue whales in call pattern and reproductive season. They are often regarded as a separate subspecies B. m. indica, although the distinguishing characters of this form are poorly defined.


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In Australian waters during the austral summer, pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) occur predictably in two distinct feeding areas off western and southern Australia. As with other blue whale subspecies, outside the austral summer their distribution and movements are poorly understood. In order to describe the migratory.


Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) subspecies of blue whale, Mirissa, Sri Lanka

A proposal to place the blue whale in the monotypic genus Sibbaldius (Barnes and McLeod 1984) has not been accepted by subsequent authors (e.g., Jones et al. 1986, 1992; Mead and Brownell, in Wilson and Reeder 1993, 2005).Includes brevicauda (pygmy blue whale) as a subspecies (Mead and Brownell).Sometimes the Northern and Southern hemisphere stocks are regarded as separate subspecies (musculus.


, Balaenoptera musculus photo, La Jolla, California, 21256

Balaenoptera musculus Protected Status ESA Endangered Throughout Its Range MMPA Protected Throughout Its Range MMPA Depleted Throughout Its Range CITES Appendix II Throughout Its Range SPAW Annex II Throughout the Wider Caribbean Region Quick Facts Weight Up to 330,000 pounds Length Up to 110 feet Lifespan Estimated at around 80 to 90 years Threats


Pygmy Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda Sri Lanka Tony Wu Underwater Photography

Leigh TorresLatin name: Balaenoptera musculus brevicaudaUntil recently blue whales in New Zealand were considered migrants, but research by Dr. Leigh Torres has now confirmed that a genetically distinct population of blue whales is present year-round in New Zealand waters.


Pygmy Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) in the waters of Indonesia, coming up to the

Three subspecies have been designated: what has been considered the largest, B. musculus intermedia, found in Antarctic waters; B. musculus musculus in the Northern Hemisphere; and B. musculus brevicauda, from the subantarctic zone of the southern Indian Ocean and south western Pacific Ocean, also colloquially known as the "pygmy" blue whale. Our knowledge of the phylogeny of the baleen.