Name - Balaenoptera musculus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:19165 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Balaenoptera musculus (L.)

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Recent Publications

• Insights on recent baleen whale (Cetacea: Mysticeti) stranding events along the south-west coast of India.
• Further trimming down the marine heavyweights: Perucetus colossus did not come close to, much less exceed, the tonnage of blue whales, and the latter are not ultra-sized either.
• Life in the slowest lane: Feeding allometry lowers metabolic rate scaling in the largest whales.
• Abundance and distribution of fin and humpback whales at the South Orkney Islands in the austral summers 2011-2025.
• Dispersal, revisitation, and residency of satellite-tagged blue and fin whales in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.

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