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Balaenopteridae Gray 1864
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Family BALAENOPTERIDAE
(RORQUALS)
• Extremely large baleen whales with streamlined bodies, longitudinally furrowed undersides, small dorsal fin, four-digit slender pectoral flippers, and broad propulsive caudal flukes; filterfeeding specialists.
• 750-3200 cm.
• Cosmopolitan, inhabiting all the world's oceans.
• (Coastal to pelagic waters from surface to depths greater than 300 m.
• 2 genera, 8 species, 13 taxa.
• 3 species. Endangered; none Extinct. since. 1600
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Balaenopteridae, pp. 242-299 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 242, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6596011
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2014