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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Minke whale or
lesser rorqual is a name given to two species of marine mammal belonging
to a clade within the suborder of baleen whales. The minke whale was
given its official designation by Lacepède in 1804,who described a dwarf
form of Balænoptera acuto-rostrata.The name is a partial translation of
Norwegian minkehval, possibly after a Norwegian whaler named Meincke,
who mistook a northern minke whale for a blue whale.