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Blue Whale

Balaenoptera musculus

Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Balaenopteridae
Genus
Balaenoptera
IUCN status
EN
Distribution
Angola|Argentina|Australia|Bangladesh|Bermuda|Brazil|Cape Verde|Canada|Chile|Cocos Islands|Colombia|Comoros|Cook Islands|Costa Rica|Djibouti|Ecuador|El Salvador|Falkland Islands|Fiji|France|Greenland|Guatemala|Iceland|India|Indonesia|Iran|Ireland|Iraq|Japan|Kenya|Kiribati|Madagascar|Malaysia|Christmas Island|Maldives|Mauritania|Mauritius|Mexico|Morocco|Mozambique|Myanmar|Namibia|Nauru|New Caledonia|New Zealand|Nicaragua|Norfolk Island|Norway|Oman|Pakistan|Palau|Panama|Papua New Guinea|Peru|Philippines|Portugal|Azores|Madeira|Russia|Réunion|Senegal|Seychelles|Solomon Islands|Somalia|South Africa|South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands|Spain|Canary Islands|Sri Lanka|Tanzania|Thailand|East Timor|Tuvalu|United Kingdom|United States|Uruguay|Vanuatu|Yemen|Gabon?|North Korea?|South Korea?|Taiwan?|China?
Realm
Marine

Other names: Blue Rorqual|Sibbald's Rorqual|Sulphur-bottom Whale|Northern Blue Whale|Pygmy Blue Whale|Antarctic Blue Whale|Southern Blue Whale|Northern Indian Ocean Blue Whale

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CC-BY-4.0David Slater — via iNaturalist (source)
Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) — Mammals of the World