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最大与最重的动物 拉丁文学名：Balaenoptera musculus 英文名：Blue whale编辑本段科属分类： 域： 真核域（Eukaryota） 界： 动物界（Animalia） 门： 脊索动物门（Chordata） 亚门： 脊椎动物亚门（Vertebrata） 纲： 哺乳纲（Mammalia） 目： 鲸目(Cetacea) 亚目： 须鲸亚目(Mysticeti) 科： 鳁鲸科(Balaenopteridae) 属： 鳁鲸属(Balaenoptera) 种： 蓝鲸(B. musculus)编辑本段亚种： 分为以下3个亚种： ●南蓝鲸(B.m intermedia Burmeister,1871)南蓝鲸分布于南半球；南蓝鲸雌性长23～24M，雄性22米性成熟，身体成熟的体长分别为26～27M和24～25m； ●北蓝鲸(B.m musculus Linnaeus,1958)北蓝鲸分布于北大西洋和北太平洋。雌性长21～23m，雄性20～21m性成熟，分别在25和24米长时身体成熟； ●小蓝鲸(B.m brevicaukta Ichihara,1966)小蓝鲸分布印度洋和东南大西洋的亚南极海域。小蓝鲸雌性长19m，雄性略小于19m性成熟，雌雄长分别为22和21m时身体成熟。 蓝鲸是鳁鲸属七个物种中的一种。但是DNA测序分析表明，蓝鲸比其属中的其它物种在种系上更接近驼背鲸和灰鲸。关于蓝鲸/鳍鲸杂交的成年后代至少有11项文献记载。阿伦逊和格尔伯格(1983年)认为蓝鲸和鳍鲸的差别类似于人类和大猩猩的差别。普遍认为鳁鲸科早在渐新世中期就和须鲸亚目的其他科分离。但是不知何时这些科的成员彼此分离。 与蓝鲸相关的动物种系树一些权威把该物种分为三个亚种：B. m. musculus，包括北大西洋和北太平洋的种群；B. m. intermedia，包括南大洋的种群；B. m. brevicauda （也称侏儒蓝鲸），包括印度洋和南太平洋的种群。更早的权威把把印度洋种群单独列为一个亚种称B. m. indica。但和其他三个亚种不同的是，最后一个亚类的名称并未出现在濒危物种红色列表上。目前两种分类方法仍旧受到一些科学家的置疑；遗传分析却表明只有两种亚种。 物种名称musculus来源于拉丁语，有“强健”的意思, 但也可以理解为“小老鼠”。林奈在1758年的开创性著作中完成了该种类的命名，他可能知道这一点，然后幽默的使用了这个带有讽刺意味的双关语。蓝鲸还有其他常用的名字，例如Sulphur-bottom（硫磺底），Sibbald"s Rorqual（鳁鲸的近亲）， Great Blue Whale（大蓝鲸） and Great Northern Rorqual（大北鳁鲸），近几十年来这些名称渐渐被人们遗忘。编辑本段大小 蓝鲸是须鲸中最大的一种，最长者是1904到1920年间捕于南极海域的一头雌鲸，长33.58m，体重170吨。 大小比较蓝鲸是曾在地球上生活过的最大动物。来自恐龙时代所知的最大的生物是中生代的阿根廷龙，阿根廷龙估计有90吨。最大的蓝鲸有多重还不确定。大部分的数据取自20世纪上半叶南极海域捕杀的蓝鲸，数据由并不精通标准动物测量方法的捕鲸人测得。有记载的最长的鲸为两头雌性，分别为33.6米和33.3米。但是这些测量的可靠性存在争议。美国国家海洋哺乳动物实验室的科学家测量到的最长的鲸长度为29.9米，大概和波音737或三辆双层公共汽车一样长。 蓝鲸的头非常大，舌头上能站50个人。它的心脏和小汽车一样大。婴儿可以爬过它的动脉，刚生下的蓝鲸幼崽比一头成年象还要重。在其生命的头七个月，幼鲸每天要喝400升母乳。幼鲸的生长速度很快，体重每24小时增加90公斤。 由于蓝鲸巨大的体积，我们不能直接称它的体重。大部分被捕杀的蓝鲸都不是整头上称的，捕
火玫瑰的回答：
1、The blue whale is the largest animal ever to inhabit the Earth.Blue whales are found throughout the world"s oceans. These gentle giants have grayish-blue skin with light spots. Measuring 70 to 80 feet in length, blue whales can weigh as much as 90 to 150 tons, although females are larger than the males. 2、 The blue whale is the largest mammal, possibly the largest animal, to ever inhabit the earth. Its body is long, somewhat tapered, and streamlined, with the head making up less than one-fourth of its total body length. Its rostrum (upper part of the head) is very broad and flat and almost U-shaped, with a single ridge that extends just forward of the blowholes to the tip of the snout. Its blowholes are contained in a large, raised "splash guard", and the blow is tall and straight and over 20 feet (6 meters) high. Its body is smooth and relatively free of parasites, but a few barnacles attach themselves to the edge of the fluke and occasionally to the tips of the flippers and to the dorsal fin. There are 55-68 ventral grooves or pleats extending from the lower jaw to near the navel.
┲战侠歌┱的回答：
Blue Whale从维基百科查到的！The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales (called Mysticeti).[3] At up to 32.9 metres (108 feet) in length and 172 metric tonnes (190 short tons)[4] or more in weight, it is the largest whale and the largest living animal and is the largest animal ever to have existed.[5]Long and slender, the Blue Whale"s body can be various shades of bluish-grey dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath.[6] There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the north Atlantic and north Pacific, B. m. intermedia, of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda (also known as the Pygmy Blue Whale) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean. B. m. indica, found in the Indian Ocean, may be another subspecies. As with other baleen whales, its diet consists almost exclusively of small crustaceans known as krill.[7]Blue Whales were abundant in nearly all the oceans until the beginning of the twentieth century. For over 40 years they were hunted almost to extinction by whalers until protected by the international community in 1966. A 2002 report estimated there were 5,000 to 12,000 Blue Whales worldwide[8] located in at least five groups. More recent research into the Pygmy subspecies suggests this may be an underestimate.[9] Before whaling the largest population was in the Antarctic, numbering approximately 239,000 (range 202,000 to 311,000).[10] There remain only much smaller (around 2,000) concentrations in each of the North-East Pacific, Antarctic, and Indian Ocean groups. There are two more groups in the North Atlantic and at least two in the Southern Hemisphere.
太阳风暴的回答：
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These magnificent marine mammals rule the oceans at up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and upwards of 200 tons (181 metric tons). Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant. Their hearts, as much as an automobile. Blue whales reach these mind-boggling dimensions on a diet composed nearly exclusively of tiny shrimplike animals called krill. During certain times of the year, a single adult blue whale consumes about 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) of krill a day. Blue whales are baleen whales, which means they have fringed plates of fingernail-like material, called baleen, attached to their upper jaws. The giant animals feed by first gulping an enormous mouthful of water, expanding the pleated skin on their throat and belly to take it in. Then the whale"s massive tongue forces the water out through the thin, overlapping baleen plates. Thousands of krill are left behind—and then swallowed. Blue whales look true blue underwater, but on the surface their coloring is more a mottled blue-gray. Their underbellies take on a yellowish hue from the millions of microorganisms that take up residence in their skin. The blue whale has a broad, flat head and a long, tapered
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