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Minke whale , or lesser rorqual, is a name given to two species of marine mammal belonging to a clade within the suborder of baleen whales. The minke whale was given its official designation〔It had been inaccurately described by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1780, who assumed it must be an already described species, assigned his specimen to ''Balaena rostrata'', a name, however, that was already in use.〕 by Lacepède in 1804,〔Lacepède, ''Histoire naturelle des cétacées.'' (Paris, 1804).〕 who described a juvenile specimen of ''Balænoptera acuto-rostrata''.〔Modern orthography makes it ''Balaenoptera acutitostrata''.〕 The name is a partial translation of Norwegian ''minkehval'', possibly after a Norwegian whaler named Meincke, who mistook a northern minke whale for a blue whale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Dictionary.com )〕 ==Taxonomy== Most modern classifications split the minke whale into two species; * Common minke whale or northern minke whale (''Balaenoptera acutorostrata'') :and *Antarctic minke whale or southern minke whale (''Balaenoptera bonaerensis''). Taxonomists further categorize the common minke whale into two or three subspecies; the North Atlantic minke whale, the North Pacific minke whale and dwarf minke whale. All minke whales are part of the rorquals, a family that includes the humpback whale, the fin whale, the Bryde's whale, the sei whale and the blue whale. The junior synonyms for ''B. acutorostrata'' are ''B. davidsoni'' (Scammon 1872), ''B. minimia'' (Rapp, 1837) and ''B. rostrata'' (Fabricius, 1780). There is one synonym for ''B. bonaerensis'' - ''B. huttoni'' (Gray 1874). Writing in his 1998 classification, Rice recognized two of the subspecies of the common minke whale - ''B. a. scammoni'' (Scammon's minke whale) and a further (taxonomically) unnamed subspecies found in the Southern Hemisphere, the dwarf minke whale (first described by Best, 1985). On at least one occasion, an Antarctic minke whale has been confirmed migrating to the Arctic.〔 In addition, at least two wild hybrids between a common minke whale and an Antarctic minke whale have been confirmed.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minke whale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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