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