Bryde's whale (/ˈbrʊdəz/ BRUU-dəz), or the Bryde's whale complex, putatively comprises three species of rorqual and maybe four. The "complex" means the...
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Blue whale (redirect from Sibbald's rorqual)
as the common name in 1874. Blue whales were referred to as "Sibbald's rorqual", after Robert Sibbald, who first described the species. Herman Melville...
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Minke whale (redirect from Lesser Rorqual)
All minke whales are part of the rorquals, a family that includes the humpback whale, the fin whale, the Bryde's whale, the sei whale and the blue whale...
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Fin whale (redirect from Common rorqual)
species. Fin whales are rorquals, members of the family Balaenopteridae, which includes the humpback whale, the blue whale, Bryde's whale, the sei whale...
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comprises the families Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae (the gray whale) and Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale)...
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Rice's whale (redirect from Gulf of Mexico Bryde's whale)
clade that forms a polytomy with the sei whale and Bryde's whale. It is an intermediate-sized rorqual that is usually about the same size as the Eden's...
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borealis. Sei whales are rorquals (family Balaenopteridae), baleen whales that include the humpback whale, the blue whale, Bryde's whale, the fin whale,...
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Balaenoptera (category Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède)
balaena 'whale', and Ancient Greek πτερά (pterá) 'fin') is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. Balaenoptera comprises all but two of...
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New England. Humpback whales are rorquals, members of the Balaenopteridae family, which includes the blue, fin, Bryde's, sei and minke whales. A 2018 genomic...
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Amazon river dolphin (redirect from Boto Cor-de-Rosa)
individuals. The species Inia geoffrensis was described by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1817. Originally, the Amazon river dolphin belonged to the superfamily...
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Common minke whale (category Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède)
within the suborder of baleen whales. It is the smallest species of the rorquals and the second smallest species of baleen whale. Although first ignored...
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invertebrates from seawater. Grey whales feed on bottom-dwelling mollusks. Rorqual family (balaenopterids) use throat pleats to expand their mouths to take...
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Mysticeti Family: Balaenopteridae (rorquals) Genus: Balaenoptera Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera edeni DD Blue...
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1867, a fisherman found an estimated 9.75 m (32.0 ft) male rorqual floating in the Río de la Plata near Belgrano, about ten miles from Buenos Aires, Argentina...
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Eschrichtiidae (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
rorquals and that previous morphological studies were correct in the conclusion that the evolution of gulp feeding was a single event in the rorqual lineage...
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Archived (PDF) from the original on April 27, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2010. De Bruyn, P. J. N.; Tosh, C. A.; Terauds, A. (2013). "Killer whale ecotypes:...
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Olaus; Olaus; Grapheus, Cornelius Scribonius; Beller, Jean (1557). Historiae de gentibus septentrionalibus. Antverpiae: Apud Ioannem Bellerum. p. 481. Broad...
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Heude, 1888 Forest, shrubland, & grassland CR IUCN Family Balaenopteridae: rorquals Common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 Neritic &...
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Vaquita (redirect from Marsouin Du Golfe De Californie)
from shock. Local and international conservation groups, including Museo de Ballena and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, are working with the Mexican...
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New York Times. Foley, Charles; Foley, Lara; Lobora, Alex; Luca, Daniela De; Msuha, Maurus; Davenport, Tim R. B.; Durant, Sarah M. (8 June 2014). A Field...
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air through a pair of phonic lips (also known as "monkey lips" or "museau de singe") at the front end of the nose, just below the blowhole. The sound then...
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Mysticetes include four extant (living) families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals), Balaenidae (right whales), Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale), and...
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Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...
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(pygmy right whales), Eschirichtiidae (gray whales), and Balaenopteridae (rorquals). Phylogenetic relationships of the mysticeti order remain unclear due...
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throughout much of its range. Incidental mortality caused by the fleet of El Golfo de Santa Clara was estimated to be at around 39 vaquitas per year, which is over...
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minke whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis Sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera brydei Omura's whale, Balaenoptera omurai (the second...
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Catherine E. Stickley; Ursula Röhl; Saiko Sugisaki; Lisa Tauxe; Tina van de Flierdt; Matthew Olney; Francesca Sangiorgi; Appy Sluijs; Carlota Escutia;...
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3354/meps11004. Westgate, AJ; Read, AJ; Berggren, P; Koopman, HN; Gaskin, DE (1995). "Diving behaviour of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena". Can. J...
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Balaenoptera borealis EN Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera edeni DD (Canary Islands in Africa) Humpback whale...
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doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2015.01.007. Mercer, M. C. (1975). "Modified Leslie–De Lury Population Models of the Long-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melaena)...
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