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MYSTICETI Flower 1864

Description

MYSTICETI Flower 1864

Families: 4 families with 6 genera and 13 species:

Family Balaenidae Gray 1821 (2 genera with 4 species)

Family Balaenopteridae Gray 1864 (2 genera with 7 species and 8 subspecies)

Family Eschrichtiidae Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951 (1 genus with 1 species)

Family Neobalaenidae Gray 1873 (1 genus with 1 species)

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, pp. 723-743 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 723, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Flower
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Taxon rank
subOrder
Taxonomic concept label
MYSTICETI Flower, 1864 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15 (1): 296 - 310.
  • Gray, J. E. 1864 [1865]. A revision of the genera and species of viverrine animals (Viverridae) founded on the collection in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1864: 502 - 579.
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.