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Neobalaenidae Gray 1873
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Description
Family NEOBALAENIDAE
(PYGMY RIGHT WHALE)
• Smallest baleen whale with no throat grooves, long and narrow cream-to-white baleen having very fine bristles and dark outer margins, arched jaw line, and posterior ribs very broad and flat; all seven cervical vertebrae fused.
• 590-650 cm.
• Southern Hemisphere seas.
• Pelagic and coastal waters, temperate to subantarctic.
• 1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.
• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Neobalaenidae, pp. 214-220 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 214, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6603968
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Neobalaenidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neobalaenidae Gray, 1873 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2014