Balaenoptera
Balaenoptera, from the Latin balaena (whale) and pteron (fin), is a genus of Balaenopteridae, the rorquals, and contains eight extant species. The species Balaenoptera omurai was published in 2003.Balaenoptera is a diverse genus and comprises all but one of the extant species in its family - the other species is the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae.
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Neogene to the Quaternary (age range: from 13.65 to 0.0 million years ago).
Taxonomy
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata, common minke whale
- †Balaenoptera bertae (Pliocene, USA)
- Balaenoptera bonaerensis, Antarctic minke whale
- Balaenoptera borealis, sei whale
- Balaenoptera brydei, Bryde's whale
- †Balaenoptera cephalus
- †Balaenoptera colcloughi (Pliocene, USA)
- †Balaenoptera davidsonii (Pliocene, USA)
- Balaenoptera edeni, Eden's whale
- Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale
- Balaenoptera omurai, Omura's whale
- Balaenoptera physalus, fin whale
- †Balaenoptera siberi (Pliocene, Peru)
- †Balaenoptera sursiplana
- †Balaenoptera taiwanica
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