Authority citation

Tidens Tegn, 12 Nov. 1912 (Norwegian newspaper)

Original name as described

Balaenoptera brydei

Other common names

Ordinary Bryde's Whale · Large Bryde's Whale

Type locality

Saldanha Bay, South Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

American Samoa · Angola · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bonaire · Sint Eustatius · Saba · Brazil · Cape Verde · Cambodia · Cameroon · Cayman Islands · Chile · Colombia · Comoros · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Cuba · Curaçao · Cote d'Ivoire · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Fiji · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia · Ghana · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · India · Indonesia · Iran · Iraq · Jamaica · Japan · Kenya · Kiribati · North Korea · South Korea · Kuwait · Liberia · Madagascar · Malaysia · Maldives · Marshall Islands · Martinique · Mauritania · Mauritius · Mexico · Micronesia · Montserrat · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Nauru · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Nigeria · Niue · Northern Marianas · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Pitcairn · Puerto Rico · Qatar · Réunion · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Christmas Island · Sint Maarten · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · São Tomé and Príncipe · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Singapore · Solomon Islands · South Africa · Sri Lanka · Taiwan · China · Tanzania · Thailand · East Timor · Togo · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · Turks and Caicos Islands · Tuvalu · United Arab Emirates · United States · Uruguay · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · United States Virgin Islands · British Virgin Islands · Wallis and Futuna · Yemen

Subregion distribution

USA(CA, HI)

Taxonomy notes

split from B. edeni, although this taxonomic arrangement has not been accepted by some researchers given that there is ongoing nomenclatural controversy associated with the holotype of B. brydei

Taxonomy notes citation

Rosel, P.E., Wilcox, L.A., Yamada, T.K. and Mullin, K.D. 2021. A new species of baleen whale (Balaenoptera) from the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of its geographic distribution. Marine Mammal Science 37(2):577-610. doi:10.1111/mms.12776 · Lin, Y. T., Hui, F., Han, W., Li, Y. X., Heung, B. Y. W., How, C. M., ... & Qiu, J. W. (2025). Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of Eden's Whale Clarifies the Taxonomy and Speciation of Bryde's Whale Complex. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(10), msaf234. · Davis, R.W. 2026. Rice's Whale: Considerations for Identifying New Cetacean Species. Marine Mammal Science 42(1):e70112.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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