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Balaenopteridae
Gray, 1864
- rorquals
(mammal)
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Balaenopteroidea (Superfamily)
..†Amphicetus (Genus)
..Eschrichtiidae (Family) - gray whales
..†Tiphyocetus (Genus)
..Balaenopteridae (Family) - rorquals
....†Archaebalaenoptera (Genus)
....Balaenoptera (Genus) - rorquals
....†Diunatans (Genus)
....†Eobalaenoptera (Genus)
....Megaptera (Genus) - humpback whale
....†Notiocetus (Genus)
....†Parabalaenoptera (Genus)
....†Plesiobalaenoptera (Genus)
....†Protororqualus (Genus)
Authorship
Original name
:
Gray, 1864:203.
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:
Original spelling
:
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Balaenopterinae
(Subfamily)
Gray, 1864
Variants
Former rank
:
Balaenopterinae
(Subfamily)
Gray, 1864
Ref:
Bisconti & Bosselaers, 2020: 37.
[inferred]
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Palaeocetidae
(Family)
Seeley, 1865
Ref:
PBDB
: 27 Oct 2013.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
vinvissen
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
rorquals
Ref:
F.G. Marx et al., 2016
: 112.
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