Common minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Category: Whales & Dolphins
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Cetartiodactyla
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Balaenoptera
Where to Find
Found in 35 diving areas across 19 countries and 6 regions.
- South Australia, Australia - 1 records
- Victoria, Australia - 23 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 2 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 2 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 5 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 4 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 2 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 3 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Sal, Cape Verde - 1 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 8 records
- Marseille & Calanques, France - 4 records
- Silfra & Thingvellir, Iceland - 27 records
- Strytan & North Iceland, Iceland - 82 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 842 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 88 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 20 records
- Azores, Portugal - 106 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 4 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 9 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 88 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 313 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 4064 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 273 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 4662 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 35 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 732 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 166 records