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Balaenoptera musculus
Balaenoptera musculus
Blue Whale
Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0798 (2005-03-23)

Copyright © 2005 California Academy of Sciences

 
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  • date of photo  between 1985 and 1990
  • latitude 36.29610   longitude -121.85214   max error distance 5372 meters     View on Google Maps.
  • horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984
  • georeferencing source GeoLocate
  • location   Molera Beach (Monterey County, California, US)
  • family Balaenopteridae
  • order Cetacea/Suborder Mysticeti
  • class Mammalia
  • habitat  Subtidal
  • notes   California has an estimated population of 2,200 blues, the largest animals alive today. In late summer & early fall they congregate off central California where they feed on tiny shrimplike creatures, krill, that they filter from the water with their baleen. This is a young male lying on its back. Blocks of baleen have fallen on the sand.
  • camera   Nikon
  • photo category: Animal - Mammal

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL
  • common names   Ballena Azul, Blue Whale, Rorqual Bleu (ITIS ) Blue Whale (photographer)
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