Balaenoptera brydei
Ø. Olsen, 1912
Bryde's Whale
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Cetacea |
| Parvorder | : Mysticeti |
| Family | : Balaenopteridae |
| Genus | : Balaenoptera |
Species status
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
Taxonomy notes citation
Rosel, P. E., Wilcox, L. A., Yamada, T. K., & 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, 1-34.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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