Hyperoodon ampullatus
– Lower Risk Conservation Dependent
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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MAMMALIA
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Order:
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CETACEA
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Family:
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ZIPHIIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Hyperoodon ampullatus
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Species Authority:
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(Forster, 1770)
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Common Name/s:
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BOTTLEHEAD (Eng)
NORTH ATLANTIC BOTTLENOSE WHALE (Eng)
NORTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE (Eng)
HYPEROODON BORÉAL (Fre)
BALLENA HOCICO DE BOTELLA DEL NORTE (Spa)
BALLENA NARIZ DE BOTELLA DEL NORTE (Spa)
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LR/cd ver 2.3 (1994)
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Year Assessed:
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1996
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Annotations:
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Needs updating
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Assessor/s:
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Cetacean Specialist Group
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Justification:
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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)."
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History:
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| 1986 | - | Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986) |
| 1988 | - | Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988) |
| 1990 | - | Vulnerable (IUCN 1990) |
| 1994 | - | Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994) |
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Geographic Range
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Countries:
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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
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FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
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Native:
Atlantic-northeast; Atlantic-northwest
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Habitat and Ecology
