Balaenoptera edeni | Red List of Bangladesh Volume 2: Mammals
Taxa
Balaenoptera edeni | Anderson, 1879
Publication
NRL Record ID
327623
Asessment status in full
Data Deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
In February 1985, a 13.7 meter long carcass of Balaenoptera sp. was found in the south coast of Cox's Bazar (Sarker 1990). Carcass of Brydes Whale was also found at Mandarbaria on the southwest coast of the Sundarbans in February 2008, and another carcass was found at coast of Barguna district in March 2014. During December 2006 to February 2007, forty sightings of Balaenopterids occurred in and arround the Swatch of No-ground with mean 2.9 individuals (range 1-15) of which six were confirmed Bryde's Whale sightings from photo identification (Smith et al. 2008a). Thus, Bryde's Whales are believed to be distributed throughout the offshore in the Bay of Bengal but there is no estimation of its population size as well as population trends. Thus, this species has been categorized as Data Deficient.
Assessment year
2015
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
Md. Zahangir Alom
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
NGO
Academic
Assessor affiliation specific
Academic|NGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN (2012) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iv + 32pp; IUCN (2012) Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
http://iucnredlistbd.org/
Endemic to region
No
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: No
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
Not assessed (IUCN Bangladesh 2000).
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Balaenoptera edeni | Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae | Balaenoptera |