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Balaenoptera
Sign in to saveBalaenoptera () is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. Balaenoptera comprises all but two of the extant species in its family (the humpback whale and gray whale); the genus is currently polyphyletic, with the two aforementioned species being phylogenetically nested within it.
Species
baleen whales
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetacea
- FamilyBalaenopteridae
鬚鯨屬（學名：Balaenoptera）是鬚鯨科2個屬的其中之一，另一個則是大翅鯨屬。鬚鯨屬已知包括有8個不同的種，最新的一個種是2003年才確認的角島鯨。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 990
- With media
- 217
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
Research
907 papers- Fin Whales, Balaenoptera physalus: At Home in a Changing Mediterranean Sea?Advances in marine biology · 2016
- Blue whales.Current biology : CB · 2020
- The tympanoperiotic complex of the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2024
- Characterization of Common Minke Whale (Balaenoptera Acutorostrata) Cell Lines Immortalized with the Expression of Cell Cycle Regulators.Advanced biology · 2024
- Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus).Systematic biology · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Balaenopteridae
- Image
- LMazzuca Fin Whale.jpg
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- taxon name
- Balaenoptera
- Commons category
- Balaenoptera
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Balaenoptera
- taxon common name
- 须鲸科
- start time
- 13650000-0
- taxon author citation
- Lacépède, 1804
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Fossil species
- References
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Balaenoptera () is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. Balaenoptera comprises all but two of the extant species in its family (the humpback whale and gray whale); the genus is currently polyphyletic, with the two aforementioned species being phylogenetically nested within it.
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Neogene to the Quaternary (13.65 million years ago to the present).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balaenoptera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.