common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)

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Subject:	common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
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English: Balaenoptera-acutorostrata
Français : Balaenoptera-acutorostrata
Date 1871
Source Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753003487169
Author Marie-Firmin Bocourt (1819-1904)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balaenopteraacutorostrata.jpg

The common minke whale or northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales. It is the smallest species of the rorquals and the second smallest species of baleen whale. The average length of an adult common minke whale is around 8.5 meters. The common minke whale is dark grey to black in color with a white underside and has white patches behind the head and a distinctive bright white band on the outer part of the pectoral flippers.

Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Balaenoptera
Species complex: minke whale species complex
Species: Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
Subspecies
- B. a. acutorostrata
- B. a. scammoni
- B. a. ssp.
Synonyms

Gray whale
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