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WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​

WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​

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1) WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​
1.1) CLASSIFICATION OF WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​
1.2) GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
1.3) HABIT AND HABITAT
1.4) GENERAL CHARACTERSTICS OF WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​
1.5) Special features
1.6) Identification

CLASSIFICATION OF WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​

PHYLUM :- CHORDATA (Notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord present and gill slits present)

Group :- CRANIATA (Definite head. Cranium with brain present)

Sub-phylum :- VERTEBRATA (vertebral column present)

Division :- GNATHOSTOMATA (Jaws and paired appendages present)

Super class :-  TETRAPODA (Paired limbs, lungs, bony skeleton and cornified skin)

Class :-MAMMALIA (Body covered with hairs. females have mammary glands)

Sub-class :- THERIA (Viviparous)

Infra class :- EUTHERIA (Placental mammals, vagina single)

Order :- CETACEA (Fish like aquatic mammal)

Genus : Balaenoptera

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION

  • Found in arctic and antarctic waters.

HABIT AND HABITAT

  • Largest and heaviest mammal adapted for aquitic marine life. It migrates to temperate waters for breeding purposes.
WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​

GENERAL CHARACTERSTICS OF WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​

  • Commonly called as blue whale because body is blue above and yellow below.
  • Above whale has massive size measuring 35 meters in length and 1.5 lac kg in weight.
  • Balaenoptera is longest whale and largest mammal flourishing very well.
  • Body is divisible into small head, large trunk and tail.
  • Body contains paddle.like forelimbs, dorsal fin and tail flukes.
  • Whale contains fringed baleen consisting of two rows of transverse plates of keratin for filtering planktones.
  • Tail flukes are like two forked lobe of tail fin of fish. They provide strong propulsive thrust allowing upward movement of flukes which cause farward movement of whale.
  • Tail flukes are operated by strong muscles inserted into hind most vertebrae of tail fluke.
  • Stability and balance is provided by the paddle like forelimbs acting as hydroplanes.
  • Tail flukes and dorsal fins are neomorphus i.e., they are only folds of skin without any skeletal support but guided by strong muscles.
  • Paddle-like forelimbs are adapted for swimming.
WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​

Special features

  •  Also called sulfur-bottom whale, the most massive animal ever to have lived, a species of baleen whale that weighs approximately 150 tons and may attain a length of more than 30 metres (98 feet). The largest accurately measured blue whale was a 29.5-metre female that weighed 180 metric tons (nearly 200 short [U.S.] tons), but there are reports of 33-metre catches that may have reached 200 metric tons. The heart of one blue whale was recorded at nearly 700 kg (about 1,500 pounds).

Identification

  • The animal contains tail fluke and above features, hence it is whale.
WHALE (BALAENOPTERA)​
BALAENOPTERA (whale)

REFERENCES :-

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaenoptera
  2. https://www.britannica.com/animal/blue-whale
  3. https://www.amazon.in/Practical-Zoology-Invertebrate-S-Lal/
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