Balaenidae (/bəˈlɛnɪdeɪ, -diː/) is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti (baleen whales) that contains mostly fossil taxa and two living genera:...
15 KB (1,542 words) - 23:09, 4 January 2024
Right whale (category Balaenidae)
Southern right whale (E. australis). They are classified in the family Balaenidae with the bowhead whale. Right whales have rotund bodies with arching rostrums...
63 KB (7,034 words) - 04:07, 3 September 2024
List of marine mammal species (section Balaenidae)
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific...
29 KB (1,793 words) - 08:24, 27 December 2023
planktonic creatures from the water. Mysticeti comprises the families Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae...
116 KB (12,778 words) - 10:53, 15 August 2024
List of artiodactyls (section Family Balaenidae)
Camelidae, the camels and llamas; and Whippomorpha contains fourteen, Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Cetotheriidae, Delphinidae, Iniidae, Kogiidae, Lipotidae...
268 KB (15,891 words) - 15:00, 23 December 2023
Bowhead whale (category Balaenidae)
(Balaena mysticetus) is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of the genus Balaena. It is the...
68 KB (7,270 words) - 18:27, 24 August 2024
include four extant (living) families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals), Balaenidae (right whales), Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale), and Eschrichtiidae...
108 KB (12,080 words) - 02:02, 30 August 2024
having baleen plates for filter feeding and two blowholes. The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales...
75 KB (3,066 words) - 07:00, 12 July 2024
This is the list of marine mammals found in Australian waters. It is a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia. Conservation status listed follows...
7 KB (481 words) - 00:54, 5 June 2023
Mammals in Western Australia include both native and introduced species. Family: Tachyglossidae Genus: Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, T. aculeatus...
14 KB (1,134 words) - 23:24, 28 November 2023
List of mammals of Texas (section Balaenidae)
Balaenidae Species Common name Distribution Status Image Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic right whale...
75 KB (1,382 words) - 02:56, 1 September 2024
Brazil has the largest mammal diversity in the world, with more than 600 described species and more likely to be discovered. According to the International...
55 KB (4,686 words) - 13:45, 7 July 2024
whale and dolphin are informal: Mysticeti: Whales, with four families: Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales), Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whales), Balaenopteridae...
116 KB (12,839 words) - 05:12, 5 September 2024
bowhead) to be a single species. In the 19th and 20th centuries the family Balaenidae was the subject of great taxonometric debate. Authorities have repeatedly...
115 KB (11,448 words) - 10:19, 25 August 2024
Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
144 KB (14,839 words) - 13:31, 4 September 2024
Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
94 KB (10,329 words) - 17:49, 4 September 2024
List of mammals of Europe (section Balaenidae)
This is a list of mammals of Europe. It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of...
44 KB (3,387 words) - 21:21, 20 July 2024
Balaena (category Balaenidae)
Balaena is a genus of cetacean (whale) in the family Balaenidae. Balaena is considered a monotypic genus, as it has only a single extant species, the bowhead...
8 KB (695 words) - 21:59, 10 May 2024
List of mammals of India (section Family Balaenidae)
This list of mammals of India comprises all the mammal species alive in India today. Some of them are common to the point of being considered vermin while...
58 KB (5,362 words) - 15:34, 1 July 2024
Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
194 KB (20,165 words) - 17:15, 7 September 2024
List of African animals extinct in the Holocene (section Right and bowhead whales (family Balaenidae))
This list of African species extinct in the Holocene covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before...
58 KB (2,502 words) - 00:04, 5 September 2024
1804, Bernard Germain de Lacépède shifted the humpback from the family Balaenidae, renaming it B. jubartes. In 1846, John Edward Gray created the genus...
74 KB (7,587 words) - 08:57, 30 August 2024
There are 7 orders, 17 families, 40 genera, and 60 species represented among the mammals of New England. If extirpated, coastal, introduced, and accidental...
38 KB (3,976 words) - 18:13, 15 July 2024
This is a list of mammals of South Australia. It includes all mammals recorded in South Australia since European settlement, including some known only...
14 KB (1,174 words) - 15:46, 20 March 2022
Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
85 KB (9,579 words) - 09:24, 7 September 2024
Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
83 KB (8,602 words) - 04:25, 3 September 2024
antelopes Whippomorpha Hippopotamidae: Hippopotamuses Cetacea Mysticeti Balaenidae: Bowhead and right whales Cetotheriidae: Pygmy right whale Balaenopteridae:...
59 KB (5,867 words) - 17:19, 21 August 2024
Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
54 KB (6,117 words) - 07:40, 19 August 2024
List of extinct cetaceans (section Family Balaenidae)
The list of extinct cetaceans features the extinct genera and species of the order Cetacea. The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants...
33 KB (2,401 words) - 13:20, 4 September 2024
Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
149 KB (16,538 words) - 11:53, 5 September 2024