Balaenoptera
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.
Species
baleen whales
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetacea
- FamilyBalaenopteridae
Habitatmarine
Observations4,027
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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Research
907 papers- Fin Whales, Balaenoptera physalus: At Home in a Changing Mediterranean Sea?Advances in marine biology · 2016
- Blue whales.
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Article
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).