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Hyperoodon ampullatus

Northern bottlenose whale

Hyperoodon ampullatus, Northern bottlenose whale
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Red List, global
NT
Near Threatened, 2021
First CITES listing
II
Appendix II, 1979
CITES trade records
35
1990–2022 · exporter-reported
Unit dimensions
3
reported separately, never summed
NAMMCO catch entries
45
catch records
Seizure records
0
reported taxon matches

One of 43: each square a species, coloured by its latest global Red List category, this one ringed. Northern Bottlenose Whale is among the cetaceans.

In summary derived

Hyperoodon ampullatus, Northern bottlenose whale, is placed in family Ziphiidae, order Cetacea, class Mammalia. It was first listed in Appendix II in 1979. The earliest CITES listing row the corpus holds for it is Appendix I, dated 1983, a later entry that lists it as part of Hyperoodon spp. The corpus records 1 dated listing row in total.

Its latest global Red List assessment is Near Threatened, published 2021. It carries 2 earlier global assessments on the current scale and 5 on scales that were superseded before the current categories and cannot be compared with them. An assessment at Europe scope records Least Concern. This site reports the global category; the two are not interchangeable.

The corpus holds 35 exporter-reported CITES trade records for it, from 1990 to 2022, reported across 3 unit dimensions. The most frequently recorded term is specimens: 22 records across 3 unit dimensions, of which 16 are measured in specimens. NAMMCO records 45 catch entries, from 1992 to 2023, totalling 207 animals reported by NAMMCO member countries, counting each year's area reports, or its national total where the year reports no area. Attribution is by the taxon name each report gave. No seizure record in the corpus is attributed to it.

Composed from 20 corpus fields, by template, with no model
  • species.class
  • species.family
  • species.order_name
  • species_catch.catch_total
  • species_catch.year
  • species_iucn.is_global
  • species_iucn.scope_code
  • species_iucn.status
  • species_iucn.year_published
  • species_listing.appendix
  • species_listing.listing_date
  • species_listing_event.appendix
  • species_listing_event.event_date
  • species_seizure.*
  • species_trade.dimension
  • species_trade.first_year
  • species_trade.last_year
  • species_trade.record_count
  • species_trade.reporter_type
  • species_trade.term

Each sentence is generated from the columns above and nothing else. The same corpus produces the same text every time. Where a field is absent the sentence is omitted rather than hedged.

Overview curated

Taxonomy entered by a named curator and versioned in the repository.

Class
Mammalia
Order
Cetacea
Family
Ziphiidae
First CITES listing
1979
Global Red List status
NTNear Threatened, assessed 2021
Regional status (Europe)
LCRegional, 2023. Not the species status.
Content withheld pending expert review

8 narrative sections for this species were machine-drafted and are not shown. No subject expert has reviewed and signed them.

Trade derived

CITES Trade Database v2025.1, extracted 13 June 2025.

There is no single trade total

Quantities are reported per unit dimension, per traded term, and per reporting side. These are not additive: kilograms and individual animals have no common unit, a live animal is not a carving, and an importer report and an exporter report are two accounts of one shipment rather than two shipments.

Figures below are exporter-reported.

count in specimens
27
mass in kg
7
packaging in containers
1

Records per dimension. Not additive across units.

Trade over time

listed 19791990: 2 records1993: 2 records1996: 2 records1999: 2 records2000: 4 records2001: 2 records2002: 1 records2004: 1 records2005: 2 records2006: 2 records2007: 1 records2009: 1 records2011: 3 records2012: 1 records2013: 1 records2014: 2 records2015: 1 records2017: 1 records2019: 2 records2022: 2 records19801990200020102020
Peak 4 records in 2000. Trade records per year, exporter-reported, every term and unit counted as records, not quantities.
listed 19791996: 5 specimens1999: 2 specimens2000: 3 specimens2001: 3 specimens2002: 2 specimens2004: 151 specimens2005: 2 specimens2006: 2 specimens2012: 19 specimens2014: 15 specimens2015: 95 specimens1980199020002010
Peak 151 specimens in 2004. Quantity of specimens, the term with most records (16), in specimens, exporter-reported. Other terms are in the tables below, each in its own unit.

count measured in specimens

27 of 35 records carry a quantity in specimens. CITES leaves the unit blank to mean a count of the term.

Bars count trade records per term, not specimens, all sources combined; the table splits them by source and gives the quantity in specimens.
TermQuantityRecordsYearsSource
specimens148 specimens151996–2015W
skulls4 specimens41993–2017W
teeth39 specimens31996–2022W
skulls2 specimens11990not recorded
specimens151 specimens12004O
unspecified1 specimen12000W
baleen1 specimen12007W
ivory pieces1 specimen12000W

mass measured in kg

7 of 35 records carry a quantity in kg.

Bars count trade records per term, not kg, all sources combined; the table splits them by source and gives the quantity in kg.
TermQuantityRecordsYearsSource
specimens0.99 kg52011–2019W
meat450 kg11990not recorded
bones180 kg12013W

packaging measured in containers

1 of 35 records carry a quantity in containers.

TermQuantityRecordsYearsSource
specimens222 containers12006W

CITES listings curated

CoP decisions, cross-checked against the appendix reported on trade records.

First listed on 1979-06-28, in Appendix II, from the CITES listing history. The table below holds the species' current listing entries, which begin later; earlier coverage is often under a higher taxon.

DateAppendixAnnotationStatus
1983-07-29I[GENUS listing Hyperoodon spp.] Included in Hyperoodon spp.earliest current entry

Convention on Migratory Species

Listed under CMS: Appendix II. Also covered by ACCOBAMS, ASCOBANS, Western African Aquatic Mammals, which are separate instruments with their own annexes.

IUCN Red List derived

Assessment history. Scope is always stated: a regional assessment is not the species status.

This history crosses a criteria revision

Categories from before 2001 come from earlier Red List systems. Three kinds are kept apart.

LR/lc and LR/nt are the modern LC and NT under their old names, so they are plotted as those categories and the line runs through them: nothing changed but the wording.

LR/cd was discontinued with no successor. This project reads it as Near Threatened, following a published crosswalk between the old and new Red List systems, and the chart marks such a point hollow and names both codes, because placing a category is not the same as finding it published.

The pre-1994 codes (E, V, K, T and the rest) are not on the risk order at all, so they sit below the axis and the line breaks across them. A category change across a criteria revision is not a change in extinction risk, and none of these is scored as a movement: the ledger refuses every one of them at gate 3.

LCNTVUENCR198619902000201020231996: LR/cd, Lower Risk, conservation dependent (1994 system, discontinued 2001) (global). Placed at Near Threatened by the crosswalk this project adopted (Lin et al. 2025, doi:10.1111/cobi.70103); the category IUCN published is LR/cd.2021: Near Threatened (global)?1986: Vulnerable (pre-1994 criteria), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order1988: Vulnerable (pre-1994 criteria), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order1990: Vulnerable (pre-1994 criteria), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order1994: Insufficiently Known (pre-1994; not a risk category), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order2007: Data Deficient — carries no position on the risk order2008: Data Deficient — carries no position on the risk order2023: Least Concern, assessed at Europe scope, not the global statusEuropeLCNTVUENCR19862000201020231996: LR/cd, Lower Risk, conservation dependent (1994 system, discontinued 2001) (global). Placed at Near Threatened by the crosswalk this project adopted (Lin et al. 2025, doi:10.1111/cobi.70103); the category IUCN published is LR/cd.2021: Near Threatened (global)?1986: Vulnerable (pre-1994 criteria), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order1988: Vulnerable (pre-1994 criteria), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order1990: Vulnerable (pre-1994 criteria), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order1994: Insufficiently Known (pre-1994; not a risk category), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order2007: Data Deficient — carries no position on the risk order2008: Data Deficient — carries no position on the risk order2023: Least Concern, assessed at Europe scope, not the global statusEurope
  • published global assessment
  • placed on the scale by a crosswalk
  • not on this scale (below the axis)
  • regional assessment, never joined
Vertical position is the IUCN risk order, not a measured quantity: the gaps between categories are equal on the page and not in nature. Anything that is not one of the nine modern categories carries no position on that order — Data Deficient, a superseded category, or a record that no assessment was made — so it sits below the axis and the line breaks across it rather than joining through. Each point names which it is. One point is hollow: the category was discontinued with no successor and is placed on this scale by the crosswalk this project adopted (Lin et al. 2025, doi:10.1111/cobi.70103), not published on it. The code IUCN published is in the table below and in the point's own label. Regional assessments are shown but never joined to global ones; they describe a different population.

Category movement since listing: not scored. Gate 3: the baseline category V comes from a pre-2001 Red List system and is not on the modern ordinal scale. How this is defined and why some species are not scored

YearCategoryMeaningScopeStatus
2023LCLeast ConcernEuropecurrent for this scope
2021NTNear ThreatenedGlobalcurrent for this scope
2008DDData DeficientGlobal
2007DDData DeficientGlobal
1996LR/cdLower Risk, conservation dependent (1994 system, discontinued 2001)Global
1994KInsufficiently Known (pre-1994; not a risk category)Global
1990VVulnerable (pre-1994 criteria)Global
1988VVulnerable (pre-1994 criteria)Global
1986VVulnerable (pre-1994 criteria)Global

Reported catch derived

NAMMCO catch exports dated 11 June 2025. A reported zero is stored as zero, distinct from an unknown.

YearAreaCatchQuota
2023Faroe Islands0none
2023North East Atlantic7none
2022Faroe Islands6none
2022North East Atlantic2none
2021Faroe Islands0none
2021North East Atlantic2none
2020Faroe Islands11none
2019Faroe Islands2none
2019North East Atlantic8none
2018Faroe Islands5none
2018West0none
2017Faroe Islands0none
2017West16none
2016Faroe Islands2none
2016West3none
2015Faroe Islands2none
2015West3none
2014Faroe Islands5none
2014West11none
2013Faroe Islands0none
2013West5none
2012Faroe Islands2none
2012West14none
2011West20none
2010Faroe Islands0none
2010West11none
2009Faroe Islands2none
2009West1none
2008Faroe Islands7none
2008West20none
2007Faroe Islands3none
2007West7none
2006Faroe Islands0none
2006West2none
2005Faroe Islands1none
2003Faroe Islands0none
2002Faroe Islands6none
2001Faroe Islands2none
2000Faroe Islands3none
1996Faroe Islands0none

Showing 40 of 45 records.

Illegal trade seizures derived

Seizure records whose reported taxon resolves to this species.

What the seizure source records

No seizure in the compilation names this species. Matching is on the taxon the source reported, case aside. Across the whole compilation, 225 of 919 rows match one of the 43 species and the rest name other taxa.

Quantities are unitless. The source gives no date or place, so the table shows the product and the reported taxon.

No seizure records attributed to this species.

References withheld

Machine-proposed bindings. Shown only where an expert has signed the profile and the binding is live.

No references are recorded for this species: none is shown, and none was machine-proposed for review.

Timeline curated

Curated events. Those with no corroborating table in this database are marked.

DateEventTypeCorroboration
2023IUCN Red List Assessment (2023)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2021IUCN Red List Assessment (2021)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2008IUCN Red List Assessment (2008)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2007IUCN Red List Assessment (2007)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1996IUCN Red List Assessment (1996)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1994IUCN Red List Assessment (1994)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1990IUCN Red List Assessment (1990)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1988IUCN Red List Assessment (1988)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1986IUCN Red List Assessment (1986)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1983-07-29Listed in CITES Appendix Icites_listingchecked against cites_listings