Balaenoptera edeni Bryde's Whale, Eden's Whale, Tropical Whale

Balaenoptera edeni is commonly referred to as Bryde's Whale, Eden's Whale, Tropical Whale. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

12019 

AphiaID:

137089 

Scientific:

Balaenoptera edeni 

German:

Brydewal, Edenwal 

English:

Bryde's Whale, Eden's Whale, Tropical Whale 

Category:

Mammals 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Mammalia (Class) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Balaenopteridae (Family) > Balaenoptera (Genus) > edeni (Species) 

Initial determination:

Anderson, 1878 

Occurrence:

Djibouti, Straße von Gibraltar, Ghana, Kuwait, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Suriname, Eritrea, West Sahara, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Hong Kong, Gambia, Zirkumsubtropisch, El Salvador, Sint Eustatius and Saba, (the) Maldives, Alor, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Circumtropic, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Eastern Indian Ocean, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, Timor, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uruguay, USA, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, Yemen 

Sea depth:

0 - 3000 Meter 

Size:

4724.41" - 6299.21" (12000cm - 16000cm) 

Weight:

26 Tonnen 

Temperature:

57.2 °F - 84.2 °F (14°C - 29°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Engraulis , Fish (little fishes), Herring, Jackfish, Krill, Predatory, Sardines, Sepia, Tuna 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Appendix I (trade generally prohibited)) 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Balaenoptera acutorostrata
  Minkwal, Zwergwal, Nördlicher Zwergwal
• 
  Balaenoptera bonaerensis
  Südlicher Zwergwal
• 
  Balaenoptera borealis
  Seiwal
• 
  Balaenoptera edeni
  Brydewal, Edenwal
• 
  Balaenoptera musculus
  Blauwal
• 
  Balaenoptera omurai
  Omurawal
• 
  Balaenoptera physalus
  Finnwal

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2019-03-10 22:04:21 

Last edit:

2021-10-23 13:53:54 

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