#0183 · 🦊 mammals
North Atlantic Bottlenose Whale
🇳🇱 Noordelijke Butskop ·Hyperoodon ampullatus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Anne Schlösser · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © WoRMS for SMEBD · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Canada:© James Robert Taylor · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Fjordvej 21 Strandhuse, 6000 Kolding, Danmark:© Tina Ellegaard Poulsen · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Nunavut, Canada:© Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Nunavut, Canada:© Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The northern bottlenose whale ( Hyperoodon ampullatus ) is a species of bottlenose whale in the ziphiid family, and being one of two members of the genus Hyperoodon . The northern bottlenose was hunted heavily by Norway and Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is one of the deepest diving mammals known, reaching depths of 1453 m (4767 ft).
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 238 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1770 (256 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- North Atlantic Bottlenose Whale
- Nederlands
- Noordelijke Butskop
- scientific name
- Hyperoodon ampullatus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Ziphiidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 80
- sightings worldwide
- 238
- GBIF records in NL
- 146
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1770 by Johann Reinhold Forster
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41421, Wikidata Q300949, GBIF 5220013, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.