Hyperoodon ampullatus

– Lower Risk Conservation Dependent

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CETACEA

Family:

ZIPHIIDAE

Scientific Name:

Hyperoodon ampullatus

Species Authority:

(Forster, 1770)

Common Name/s:

English	—	BOTTLEHEAD, NORTH ATLANTIC BOTTLENOSE WHALE, NORTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE
French	—	HYPEROODON BORÉAL
Spanish	—	BALLENA HOCICO DE BOTELLA DEL NORTE, BALLENA NARIZ DE BOTELLA DEL NORTE

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

LR/cd ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Cetacean Specialist Group

Justification:

Extract from Reeves et al. (2003, p. 53): "The Northern Bottlenose Whale is endemic to the temperate and subarctic North Atlantic. It was hunted commercially for many decades, particularly by Norway (60,000 killed from 1882 to the late 1920s, 5800 from 1930 to 1973; NAMMCO 1997, p.90), but has been essentially unexploited for almost 30 years, with only a few animals taken in some years in the Faroe Islands. The aggregate population was certainly reduced by whaling, and the extent of recovery is uncertain. A crude estimate of about 40,000 bottlenose whales in north-eastern and north-central Atlantic waters in the late 1980s includes a sizeable adjustment to account for their deep diving (NAMMCO 1997). The species is not in immediate danger of extinction and is still at least locally abundant. A small (about 130 individuals) and largely isolated population, centered in an area called the Gully, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, has been studied intensively for more than a decade (Whitehead et al. 1997a, 1997b; Gowans et al. 2000). Large-scale oil and gas development near the core distribution of this population is a major concern. The Gully has been designated a "Pilot Marine Protected Area" under Canada’s Oceans Act, with the expectation that this will enhance precautionary measures as development of offshore hydrocarbon resources proceeds (Hooker et al. 1999, Gowans et al. 2000)."

History:

1986	-	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Vulnerable (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Canada; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; United Kingdom

Vagrant:

Cape Verde; France; Germany; Netherlands; Portugal; Russian Federation; United States

FAO Marine Fishing Areas:

Native:

Atlantic-northeast; Atlantic-northwest

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Marine

List of Habitats:

10.1	Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)

Threats

List of Threats:

3.1.3

Harvesting (hunting/gathering) - Food - Regional/international trade (past)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Gowans, S., Whitehead, H., Arch, J.K. and Hooker, S.K. 2000. Population size and residency patterns of Northern Bottlenose Whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) using the Gully, Nova Scotia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 2: 201–210.

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Hooker, S.K., Whitehead, H. and Gowans, S. 1999. Marine protected area design and the spatial and temporal distribution of cetaceans in a submarine canyon. Conservation Biology 13: 592–602.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

NAMMCO. 1997. Report of the third meeting of the scientific committee. Annual Report of the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, Tromsø, Norway, 1995, 71–126.

Reeves, R.R., Smith, B.D., Crespo, E.A. and di Sciara, G.N. (compilers) 2003. Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans. IUCN/SSC Cetacean Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Whitehead, H., Faucher, A., Gowans, S. and McCarrey, S. 1997a. Status of the Northern Bottlenose Whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus, in The Gully, Nova Scotia. Canadian Field-Naturalist 111: 287–292.

Whitehead, H., Gowans, S., Faucher, A. and McCarrey, S.W. 1997b. Population analysis of Northern Bottlenose Whales in The Gully, Nova Scotia. Marine Mammal Science 13: 173–185.

Citation:	Cetacean Specialist Group 1996. Hyperoodon ampullatus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 July 2008.
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