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Taxon: Genus
Eschrichtius
(Gray, 1864) Gray, 1865
- gray whale
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Natura - nature
..Mundus - physical world
....Naturalia - natural bodies
......Biota
........Domain Eukaryota - eukaryotes
..........Unikonta
............Opisthokonta
..............Holozoa
................Kingdom Animalia - animals
..................Epitheliozoa
....................Eumetazoa - eumetazoans
......................Bilateria - bilaterians
........................Eubilateria
..........................Deuterostomia - deuterostomes
............................Phylum Chordata - chordates
..............................Subphylum Vertebrata - vertebrates
................................Infraphylum Gnathostomata - jawed vertebrates
..................................Superclass Tetrapoda - tetrapods
....................................Reptiliomorpha
......................................Batrachosauria
........................................Amniota
..........................................Synapsida
............................................Therapsida
..............................................Theriodontia
................................................Eutheriodontia
..................................................Cynodontia
....................................................Eucynodontia
......................................................Mammaliamorpha
........................................................Mammaliaformes
..........................................................Holotheria
............................................................Class Mammalia - mammals
..............................................................Theriimorpha
................................................................Theriiformes
..................................................................Trechnotheria
....................................................................Cladotheria
......................................................................Zatheria
........................................................................Subclass Boreosphenida
..........................................................................Theria
............................................................................Infraclass Eutheria
..............................................................................Cohort Placentalia - placentals
................................................................................Magnorder Boreoeutheria
..................................................................................Grandorder Laurasiatheria
....................................................................................Scrotifera
......................................................................................Fereuungulata
........................................................................................Euungulata
..........................................................................................Mirorder Eparctocyona
............................................................................................Order Cetartiodactyla
..............................................................................................Whippomorpha
................................................................................................Suborder Cetacea - cetaceans
..................................................................................................Infraorder Autoceta
....................................................................................................Parvorder Mysticeti - whalebone whales
......................................................................................................Family Balaenopteridae - rorquals
........................................................................................................Subfamily Eschrichtiinae - gray whale
..........................................................................................................Genus Eschrichtius - gray whale
............................................................................................................Species Eschrichtius robustus - grey whale
............................................................................................................(Species Eschrichtius gibbosus)
............................................................................................................(Species Eschrichtius glaucus)
Authorship
Original name
Gray, 1864:350
Subsequent rank
Gray, 1865
Types
Type of
Eschrichtiinae
(Subfamily)
(Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
Type, by original designation
Eschrichtius robustus
(Lilljeborg, 1860[1861])
Synonyms
Synonym
Rhachianectes
(Genus)
Cope, 1869
[
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
: 122
]
Taxonomic positions
Subsequent position
Eschrichtiinae
(Subfamily)
(Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
[
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 378
]
Vernacular Names
English
:
gray whale
Number of Subtaxa
2013
Available in Systema Naturae 2000
1s
1993
J.G. Mead & R.L. Brownell Jr.
[1s]
1991
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill
[1s]
1982
A.F. DeBlase
1s
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Last updated: 7 Apr 2012