Blue Whale
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene-Present Day (Gelasian-recent), 2 million-0 years ago
CONSERVATION STATUS
Data Deficient (DD)
POPULATIONS TRENDING
Increasing
CLASSIFICATIONS
Kingdom: Animals (Animalia)
Phylum: Chordates (Chordata)
Superclass: Tetrapods (Tetrapoda)
Clade: Amniotes (Amniota)
Clade: Synapsids (Synapsida)
Clade: Therapsids (Therapsida)
Clade: Cynodonts (Cynodontia)
Clade: Eucynodonts (Eucynodontia)
Clade: Mammaliamorph (Mammaliamorpha)
Clade: Mammaliaformes (Mammaliaformes)
Class: Mammals (Mammalia/Mammalians)
Subclass: Theria (Theria)
Clade: Eutheria (Eutheria)
Infraclass: Placentals (Placentalia/Placentalians)
Magnorder: Neoplacentals (Neoplacentalia) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
Superorder: Laurasiatheroglires (Laurasiatheroglires) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019) (down below here)
Grandorder: Laurasiatheres (Laurasiatheria)
Clade: Ferungulates (Ferungulata)
Mirorder: Ungulates (Ungulata)
Clade: Euungulates (Euungulata)
Clade: Artiodactylamorph (Artiodactylamorpha)
Order: Even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla/Cetartiodactyla)
Clade: Artiofabula (Artiofabula)
Clade: Cetruminantians (Cetruminantia)
Clade: Cetancodontamorph (Cetancodontamorpha)
Clade: Cetaceopterygian (Cetaceopterygia) (Christopher Bland The Whale, Pearl The Sperm Whale, Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny, SpongeBob SquarePants and Sandy Cheeks, Porky Pig and Petunia Pig, Davy The Whale, 2021)
Suborder: Whippomorph (Whippomorpha)
Clade: Cetaceamorph (Cetaceamorpha)
Infraorder: Cetacean (Cetaceans/Cetacea)
Clade: Eucetaceamorph (Eucetaceamorpha) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
Clade: Eucetaceaformes (Eucetaceaformes) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
Clade: Eucetaceans (Eucetacea) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
Clade: Pelagicete (Pelagiceti)
Clade: Neocete (Neoceti)
Parvorder: Baleen Whale (Mysticeti)
Clade: Kinetomente (Kinetomenta)
Clade: Chaeomysticete (Chaeomysticeti)
Superfamily: Balaenopteroid (Balaenopteroidea)
Family: Rorqual Whale (Balaenopteridae)
Subfamily: Balenopterines (Balaenopterinae)
Tribes: Balaenopterini (Sandy Cheeks, 2014)
Genus: Balaenoptera whales (Balaenoptera)
Species: Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) (Carolus Linnaeus, 1758) (originally as "Balaena musculus")
SUBSPECIES
Northern Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus musculus) (Linnaeus, 1758)
Indo-Pacific Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus indica) (Blyth, 1859)
Antarctic Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia) (Burmeister, 1871)
Pygmy Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) (Ichihara, 1966)
Bugs Bunny's Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus bugsbunnyii) (Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris, Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Joe Pytka, 1996)
Lola Bunny's Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus lolabunnyii) (Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris, Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Joe Pytka, 1996)
SpongeBob SquarePants's Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus squarepantsii) (SpongeBob SquarePants, Sandy Cheeks, Stephen Hillenburg, 1999)
Sandy Cheek's Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus sandycheeksii) (SpongeBob SquarePants, Sandy Cheeks, Stephen Hillenburg, 1999)
NEOPLACENTALIA SYNONYMS
Neoplacentals (Neoplacentalia) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
Neotheres (Neotheria) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
Exarchontoplacentals (Exarchontoplacentalia) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
Exprimatoplacentals (Exprimatoplacentalia) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2020)
LAURASIATHEROGLIRES SYNONYMS
Cetoglires (Cetoglires) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Supracetaceans (Supracetacea) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Cetaceoglires (Cetaceoglires) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Supralaurasiatheres (Supralaurasiatheria) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Supracetes (Supraceti) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Cetolagomorph (Cetolagomorpha) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Lagocetaceans (Lagocetacea) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Lagocetes (Lagoceti) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
Cetorodents (Cetorodentia) (Christopher Bland The Whale, 2019)
BLUE WHALE'S SYNONYMS
Balaena musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Balaenoptera gibbar (Scoresby, 1820)
Pterobalaena gigas (Van Beneden, 1861)
Physalus latirostris (Flower, 1864)
Sibbaldius borealis (Gray, 1866)
Flowerius gigas (LilljeBorg, 1867)
Sibbaldius sulfureus (Cope, 1869)
Balaenoptera sibbaldii (Sars, 1875)
Sibbaldius musculus (Cope, 1870)
Physalus musculus (Flower, 1863)
Rorqualus musculus (Hassanin, Ropiquet, Sasaki, Nikaido, Rosenbaum and Brownell Jr., 2012)
Crustaceovenator musculus (Chris Bland The Whale 2021)
Piscovenator musculus (Chris Bland The Whale, 2021)
CETOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Living: Worldwide
Diets: Omnivores, ichthyophagous, piscivores, planktivores, filter-feeders they ate seaweeds, kelp, seagrass, sea plants, phytoplankton, and they hunting preying which including Actinopterygii fishes such as mackerels, tunas, sardines, herrings, salmons, and cods; crustaceans such as krills, prawns, shrimps; little animals such as zooplanktons; cephalopods such as hooked squid; they ate scavengers and carrions.
Predation: Other cetaceans like dolphins Alula Whale; basilosaurids Cadborosaurus; other baleen whales House On The Rock Whale.
Size: 70-110 feet long and 196-219 tons
]Wiki info
The Blue Whale[ (Balaenoptera musculus) also known as Sulfur Bottom Whale is a marine mammal and a baleen whales. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29-43 meters (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 tons (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the largest animal known ever to have existed. The Blue Whale's long and slender body can be of various shades of grayish-blue dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath. Four subspecies are recognized: B. m. musculus in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia in the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda (the Pygmy Blue Whale) in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, B. m. indica in the Northern Indian Ocean. There is also a population in the waters off Chile that may constitute a fifth subspecies.
In general, Blue Whale populations migrate between their summer feeding areas near the poles and their winter breeding grounds near the tropics. There is also evidence of year-round residencies, and partial or age/sex-based migration. Blue Whales are filter feeders; their diet consists almost exclusively of krill. They are generally solitary or gather in small groups, and have no well-defined social structure other than mother-calf bonds. The fundamental frequency for Blue Whale vocalizations ranges from 8 to 25 Hz and the production of vocalizations may vary by region, season, behavior, and time of day. Orcas and Alula Whales are their only natural predators.
The Blue Whale was once abundant in nearly all the Earth's oceans until the end of the 19th century. It was hunted almost to the point of extinction by whalers until the International Whaling Commission banned all Blue Whale hunting in 1940s. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed Blue Whales as Endangered as of 1960s. It continues to face numerous man-made threats such as ship strikes, pollution, ocean noise and climate change.
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