Balaenoptera musculus

species of marine mammal, largest living animal in the world

Class type of: Cetacea, fin whale Q42196

Facts

21 properties

Instance of: taxon
Subclass of: Cetacea, fin whale
Short name: B. musculus^[13]
CITES Appendix: Appendix I of CITES
Described by source: Belarusian encyclopedia^[10]
EPBC conservation status: endangered
Gestation period: 11.5 month^[29]
Has characteristic: viviparity^[12]
IUCN conservation status: endangered^[5]
Length: 27.1 m^[28]
Main food source: Euphausiacea^[9]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Original combination: Balaena musculus^[11]
Parent taxon: Balaenoptera^[6]
Start time: -1500000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[8]
Taxon author citation: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxon common name: Ballena Azul, Baleine bleue, blue whale, Sibbold’s Rorqual, Sulphur-bottom Whale, Pygmy Blue Whale, Blauwal, 藍鯨, blouwalvis, blauwe vinvis, baleine bleue, ဝေလငါးပြာ, 蓝鲸, blåhval, ballena azul, balenottera azzurra, синий кит, sinji kit, Paus biru, Dompu^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]^[27]
Taxon name: Balaenoptera musculus^[7]
Taxon range: Brazil
Taxon rank: species^[4]
Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule: Schedule I (Part I) of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972

🏷️ Also known as

en blue whale en Sibbold’s Rorqual, en Balaenoptera musculus en Pygmy Blue Whale en Sulphur-bottom whale ar حوت ازرق ar حوت أزرق ar الحوت الأزرق ar حوت الازرق cs plejtvák obrovský cs B. musculus cs Balaenoptera musculus da Balaenoptera musculus da blåhval de Sibbaldus musculus de Sibbaldswal de Blauwale de B. musculus de Balaenoptera musculus de Blauwal

🔖 Identifiers · 81

Library of Congress Authorities ID: sh85015093
GND ID: 4646053-6
ADW taxon ID: Balaenoptera_musculus
ARKive ID (archived): blue-whale/balaenoptera-musculus
ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID: 1006401
Australian Faunal Directory ID: Balaenoptera_musculus
BBC News topic ID: cr1nj84llqet
BBC Things ID: 21d5d324-590e-43e5-9f1b-bb6762f78791
BISMaL taxon ID: 9027281
BOLD Systems taxon ID: 26144
Belgian Species List ID: 27996
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12468393z

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BioLib taxon ID: 20765
CITES Species+ ID: 10905
CMS ID: balaenoptera-musculus
CONABIO ID: 185237MAMIFB501112
CalPhotos taxon ID: Balaenoptera+musculus
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID: blue-whale
Catalogue of Life ID: KF8T
DORIS ID: 1823
Dewey Decimal Classification: 599.5248
Dyntaxa ID: 233168
E-Fauna BC species ID: Balaenoptera musculus
ECOS ID: 2192
EPPO Code: BLNPMU
EUNIS ID for species: 1362
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021): 180421
Encyclopedia of Life ID: 46559433
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: animal/blue-whale
Fossilworks taxon ID: 70697
Freebase ID: /m/01k8h
GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update): 2440735
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: blåhval
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID: goluboi-kit-be487a
Harper's tag: blue-whale
INSDC/RefSeq assembly accession number: GCA_009873245.3
INaturalist taxon ID: 41553
ITIS TSN: 180528
IUCN taxon ID: 2477
India Biodiversity Portal species ID: 226663
Interlingual Index ID: i46252
J9U entity ID: 987007282550205171
KBpedia ID: BlueWhale
Klexikon article ID: Blauwal
Lex ID: blåhval
MSW ID: 14300018
Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID: 829
MyBIS species ID: 47511
NBIC scientific name ID: 48145
NBN System Key: NBNSYS0000005163
NCBI taxonomy ID: 9771
NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID: blue-whale
Naturbasen species ID: 957/blaahval
NatureServe Explorer ID: 2.101880
Nederlands Soortenregister ID: 138893
New Zealand Organisms Register ID: 40025dd7-e746-467c-9856-9b4ac1113aed
OBIS ID: 137090
Observation.org taxon ID: 1391
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 1300096
Open Tree of Life ID: 226190
Paleobiology Database taxon ID: 70697
Queensland Biota ID: 1052
Quora topic ID: Blue-Whales
SeaLifeBase ID: 69007
Sequenced genome URL: www.ensembl.org
Species Profile and Threats Database ID: 36
Species at Risk public registry ID: 718 (152–718, n=3)
TAXREF ID: 60863
TaiBNET ID: 385002
TaiCOL ID (new version): t0057878
Threatened Species Link ID: Blue-Whale
Topic's main category: Category:Blue whales
UBio ID: 105945
Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID: 8496040
Vikidia article ID: es:Balaenoptera_musculus, fr:Baleine_bleue
WikiKids ID: Blauwe_vinvis
WoRMS-ID for taxa: 137090
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 02067469-n
YSO ID: 38216
Yale LUX ID: concept/3e7cb99d-71aa-49db-9499-051626dff419
Zhihu topic ID: 19632985

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Subclass of 2

Cetacea, fin whale

CITES Appendix 1

Appendix I of CITES

Has characteristic 1

viviparity

IUCN conservation status 1

endangered

Instance of 1

taxon

Main food source 1

Euphausiacea

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

Parent taxon 1

Balaenoptera

Taxon range 1

Brazil

Taxon rank 1

species

Topic's main category 1

Category:Blue whales

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Blue whales

← Found in taxon 1

Blue whale penis

← Individual of taxon 1

52-hertz whale

← Main food source 1

Orcinus orca

← Model item 1

species

← Parent taxon 1

Pygmy blue whale

← Set in environment 1

Swinging Safari

← Species kept 1

Aquarium of the Pacific

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Summary

Balaenoptera musculus is a taxon^[1]. It is a type of Cetacea^[2] and fin whale^[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[4] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon rank (P105): species. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-09-19. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — IUCN conservation status (P141): endangered. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved 2023-01-02. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — parent taxon (P171): Balaenoptera. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-09-19. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon name (P225): Balaenoptera musculus. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-09-19. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — subclass of (P279): Cetacea. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — subclass of (P279): fin whale. Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — start time (P580): 1500000 BC. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — main food source (P1034): Euphausiacea. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — described by source (P1343): Belarusian encyclopedia. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — original combination (P1403): Balaena musculus. Systema Naturae. 10th edition, Volume 1. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — has characteristic (P1552): viviparity. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — short name (P1813): B. musculus. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): Ballena Azul. IUCN Red List. Retrieved 2016-10-19. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): Baleine bleue. IUCN Red List. Retrieved 2016-10-20. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): blue whale. IUCN Red List. Retrieved 2016-10-21. species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): Sibbold’s Rorqual. Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): Sulphur-bottom Whale. Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): Pygmy Blue Whale. Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): Blauwal. Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. Retrieved 2019-06-08. species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): 藍鯨. Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved 2016-11-16. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): blouwalvis. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): blauwe vinvis. Belgian Species List. Retrieved 2019-06-08. species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): ဝေလငါးပြာ. Belgian Species List. Retrieved 2019-06-08. species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): 蓝鲸. China' s mammalian diversity. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): blåhval. Retrieved 2022-09-13. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — taxon common name (P1843): balenottera azzurra. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — length (P2043): 27.1 m. marinespecies.org. marinespecies.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus — gestation period (P3063): 11.5 month. Grzimeks Enzyklopädie. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Balaenoptera musculus is an instance of taxon (Q16521) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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3d ago · Ueschar · 2026-11-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Described by source → Belarusian encyclopedia

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #66969: pages 301-500 (letter b)"
12d ago · Iripseudocorus · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Taxon common name → blue whale, Sibbold’s Rorqual, Sulphur-bottom Whale +1

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #63271: m4"
13d ago · Rizall 91202 · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Taxon common name → blue whale, Sibbold’s Rorqual, Sulphur-bottom Whale +1

"Created claim: Taxon common name: Paus biru"
9w ago · TerrorBite · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗

EPBC conservation status → endangered

"Added EPBC conservation status (P14516) using data from https://www.environment.gov.au"
12w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗

WordNet 3.1 Synset ID → 02067469-n

Interlingual Index ID → i46252

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #47826: OEWN"
18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → blue-whale

"Created claim: Harper's tag: blue-whale, Matched to blue whale (#289910636) in Harper's tag #m"
19w ago · TadejM · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Taxon common name → blue whale, Sibbold’s Rorqual, Sulphur-bottom Whale +1

"Created claim: Taxon common name: sinji kit"
25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗

"mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"

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