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Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale)
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).
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
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1780 | Balaena rostrata Fabricius p. 40 |
| 1804 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède |
| 1822 | Balaena rostrata Rudolphi pp. 27-40 |
| 1836 | Balaena rostrata Cuvier p. 182 |
| 1836 | Rorqualus boops Cuvier p. 321 |
| 1837 | Rorqualus minor Hamilton p. 142 |
| 1842 | Rorqualus rostratus De Kay p. 130 |
| 1847 | Physalus (Rorqualus) boops Gray |
| 1847 | Balaena rostrata Nilsson p. 632 |
| 1849 | Pterobalaena minor Eschricht p. 109 |
| 1850 | Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 32 |
| 1864 | Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 227 |
| 1865 | Balaenoptera rostrata Flower p. 394 |
| 1866 | Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 188 |
| 1868 | Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 3 |
| 1871 | Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 56 |
| 1873 | Balaenoptera rostrata Scott p. 125 |
| 1877 | Sibbaldius mondinii Capellini p. 423 |
| 1880 | Balaenoptera rostrata Van Beneden and Gervais p. 149 |
| 1904 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Trouessart p. 783 |
| 1904 | Balaenoptera rostrata Trouessart p. 783 |
| 1912 | Balaenoptera rostrata Turner p. 59 |
| 1922 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Oliver p. 563 |
| 1952 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Sherman p. 99 |
| 1963 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Scheffer and Rice p. 9 |
| 1966 | Balaenoptera rostrata Gondar p. 144 |
| 1977 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1 |
| 1987 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Pilleri p. 113 |
| 1991 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Vidal p. 6 |
| 1998 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Rice p. 70 |
| 2005 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Mead and Brownell p. 724 |
| 2006 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Bouetel and Muizon p. 386 |
| 2008 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2008 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Uhen et al. p. 619 |
| 2008 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 243 |
| 2011 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2012 | Pterobalaena acutorostrata Hassanin et al. p. 43 figs. Fig. 1 |
| 2014 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Tsai et al. p. 86 |
| 2015 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2015 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Balaenoptera acutorostrata Tsai and Boessenecker p. 4 |
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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
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| References: Nowak 1991, Uhen 2004 | |||||
Collections (24 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neogene | South Pacific | Balaenoptera rostrata (99587) | |
| Messinian | Chile (Atacama) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (55535) | |
| Zanclean | Japan (Hokkaido) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (45803) | |
| Zanclean | Italy | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (84944 153710) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (52582) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (153708 153711) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy (Piacenza) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (55542) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (181317) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Oregon) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (59062) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Denmark | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (76050 96127) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (New Brunswick) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (73671) | |
| Holocene | Svalbard and Jan Mayen | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (170317) | |
| Holocene | France | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (type locality: 86924) | |
| Holocene | USA (California) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (167962) | |
| Holocene | USA (Alaska) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (167963) | |
| Holocene | Chile | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (167961) | |
| Holocene | Denmark | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (122633 159721) | |
| Holocene | Japan | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (82088) | |
| Holocene | New Caledonia | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (83456) | |
| Holocene | USA (Oregon) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (224273) |