AnAge entry for Balaenoptera edeni
Classification (HAGRID: 02280)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Cetacea (Taxon entry)
Family: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Balaenoptera
- Species
- Balaenoptera edeni
- Common name
- Bryde's whale
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 72 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 1
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 3,104 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 3,104 days
- Gestation
- 376 days
- Weaning
- 274 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.5
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 1,000,000 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 16,000,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0443] Ronald Nowak (2003), Walker's Marine Mammals of the World
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0001] Carey and Judge (2000), Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180525
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9769
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