#0058 · 🦊 mammals
Common Minke Whale
🇳🇱 Dwergvinvis ·Balaenoptera acutorostrata
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © J. Martin Crossley · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © finsandphotography · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Wayne and Pam Osborn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Thomas Belaoud · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © J. Martin Crossley · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Isaac Lord · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Ulf Swenson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Nils · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Tom Benson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © J. Martin Crossley · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
The common minke whale or northern minke whale ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata ) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 3 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,800 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1804 (222 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Minke Whale
- Nederlands
- Dwergvinvis
- scientific name
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Balaenopteridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 3
- sightings in Europe
- 590
- sightings worldwide
- 3,800
- GBIF records in NL
- 343
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1804 by Bernard Germain de Lacépède
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Balaenopteridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41550, Wikidata Q201808, GBIF 2440728, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.