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Mount Rorqual. Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula. Mount Rorqual ( 65°39′S 62°20′W) is a peak between Starbuck and Stubb Glaciers in southeastern Aristotle Mountains, 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of Mount Queequeg, on the east side of Graham Land. The feature is rocky and precipitous, rises to 1,110 m and is ...
Minke whale. The minke whale (also known as the lesser rorqual) is the smallest of the baleen whales that lives in many places in the world. It is the smallest rorqual whale (the large baleen whales). A large one is about 30 feet long and weighs 10 tons. They are black or gray with white on their belly and a white "armband" across their flippers.
Rorqual: 5 December 1956, built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness : Broken up 1977 Narwhal: 25 October 1957. Built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness Sunk as a target on 3 August 1983 Grampus: 30 May 1957. Built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. Sunk as a target in 1980 Finwhale: 21 July 1959. Built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. Broken up in 1988 ...
Le rorqual commun ( Balaenoptera physalus) est une espèce de cétacé de la famille des Balaenopteridae. Après la baleine bleue, et avec une longueur d'environ 20 mètres, c'est le deuxième plus grand mammifère vivant sur la planète 1 . On le trouve dans tous les océans, ainsi qu'en mer Méditerranée, il a une grande longévité ...
Baleia-de-minke. Balaenoptera acutorostrata(Lacépède, 1804), popularmente conhecida como baleia-anã, baleote, baleia-de-minke e finbeque (na região dos Açores ), é o balenopterídeo ( Balaenopteridae) ou rorqual de menor porte pertencente à subordem dos misticetos ( Mysticeti ).
Rice's whale ( Balaenoptera ricei ), also known as the Gulf of Mexico whale, is a species of baleen whale endemic to the northern Gulf of Mexico. Initially identified as a subpopulation of the Bryde's whale, genetic and skeletal studies found it to be a distinct species by 2021. In outward appearance, it is virtually identical to the Bryde's whale.
Omura's whale. Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale ( Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known. [3] Before its formal description, it was referred to as a small, dwarf or pygmy form of Bryde's whale by various sources. [4] The common name and specific epithet commemorate Japanese cetologist Hideo Omura [ jp].
