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Megaptera Gray 1846

Description

Megaptera Gray, 1846. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 17:83.

TYPE SPECIES: Megaptera longipinna Gray, 1846 (= Balaena novaeangliae Borowski, 1781).

SYNONYMS: Cyphobalaena, Kyphobalaena, Perqualus, Poescopia.

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 350, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Balaenopteridae
Genus
Megaptera
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Megaptera Gray, 1846 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993