Balaenoptera

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Balaenoptera
Fin whale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Cetacea Suborder: Mysticeti Family: Balaenopteridae Subfamily: Balaenopterinae Genus: Balaenoptera
Species
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Balaenoptera is the largest genus of the Rorqual whales, containing eight species, including the recently discovered Balaenoptera omurai in 2003. The only rorqual whale which is currently not classified as a member of the genus Balaenoptera is the Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae.

[edit] Taxonomy

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• Genus Balaenoptera
  • Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus
  • Sei Whale, Balaenoptera borealis
  • Bryde's Whale, Balaenoptera brydei
  • Eden's Whale, Balaenoptera edeni
  • Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus
  • Common Minke Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
  • Antarctic Minke Whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis
  • Balaenoptera omurai, discovery announced November 2003. No common name yet in usage

v • d • e Extant Cetacea species Kingdom Animalia · Phylum Chordata · Class Mammalia · Infraclass Eutheria · Superorder Laurasiatheria · (unranked) Cetartiodactyla · (unranked) Whippomorpha   Suborder Mysticeti (Baleen whales) Balaenidae Balaena Bowhead Whale (B. mysticetus) Eubalaena (Right whales) Southern Right Whale (E. australis) · North Atlantic Right Whale (E. glacialis) · North Pacific Right Whale (E. japonica) Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Balaenoptera Common Minke Whale (B. acutorostrata) · Antarctic Minke Whale (B. bonaerensis) · Sei Whale (B. borealis) · Bryde's Whale (B. brydei) · Pygmy Bryde's Whale (B. edeni) · Blue Whale (B. musculus) · B. omurai · Fin Whale (B. physalus) Megaptera Humpback Whale (M. novaeangliae) Eschrichtiidae Eschrichtius Gray Whale (E. robustus) Neobalaenidae Caperea Pygmy Right Whale (C. marginata)   Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed whales) (cont. below) Delphinidae (Oceanic dolphins) Cephalorhynchus Commerson's Dolphin (C. commersonii) · Chilean Dolphin (C. eutropia) · Heaviside's Dolphin (C. heavisidii) · Hector's Dolphin (C. hectori) Delphinus Long-beaked Common Dolphin (D. capensis) · Short-beaked Common Dolphin (D. delphis) Feresa Pygmy Killer Whale (F. attenuata) Globicephala (Pilot whales) Short-finned Pilot Whale (G. macrorhynchus) · Long-finned Pilot Whale (G. melas) Grampus Risso's Dolphin (G. griseus) Lagenodelphis Fraser's Dolphin (L. hosei) Lagenorhynchus Atlantic White-sided Dolphin (L. acutus) · White-beaked Dolphin (L. albirostris) · Peale's Dolphin (L. australis) · Hourglass Dolphin (L. cruciger) · Pacific White-sided Dolphin (L. obliquidens) · Dusky Dolphin (L. obscurus) Lissodelphis (Right whale dolphins) Northern Right Whale Dolphin (L. borealis) · Southern Right Whale Dolphin (L. peronii) Orcaella Irrawaddy Dolphin (O. brevirostris) · Australian Snubfin Dolphin (O. heinsohni) Orcinus Orca (O. orca) Peponocephala Melon-headed Whale (P. electra) Pseudorca False Killer Whale (P. crassidens) Sotalia Tucuxi (S. fluviatilis) · Costero (S. guianensis) Sousa Pacific Humpback Dolphin (S. chinensis) · Indian Humpback Dolphin (S. plumbea) · Atlantic Humpback Dolphin (S. teuszii) Stenella Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (S. attenuata) · Clymene Dolphin (S. clymene) · Striped Dolphin (S. coeruleoalba) · Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (S. frontalis) · Spinner Dolphin (S. longirostris) Steno Rough-toothed Dolphin (S. bredanensis) Tursiops Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (T. aduncus) · Common Bottlenose Dolphin (T. truncatus)   Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed whales) (cont. above) Monodontidae Delphinapterus Beluga (D. leucas) Monodon Narwhal (M. monoceros) Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Neophocaena Finless Porpoise (N. phocaeniodes) Phocoena Spectacled Porpoise (P. dioptrica) · Harbor Porpoise (P. phocoena) · Vaquita (P. sinus) · Burmeister's Porpoise (P. spinipinnis) Phocoenoides Dall's Porpoise (P. dalli) Physeteridae Physeter Sperm Whale (P. macrocephalus) Kogiidae Kogia Pygmy sperm whale (K. breviceps) · Dwarf sperm whale (K. simus) Iniidae Inia Amazon River Dolphin (I. geoffrensis) Lipotidae Lipotes Baiji (L. vexillifer) Platanistidae Platanista Ganges and Indus River Dolphin (P. gangetica) Pontoporiidae Pontoporia La Plata Dolphin (P. blainvillei) Ziphidae (Beaked whales) Berardius Arnoux's Beaked Whale (B. arnuxii) · Baird's Beaked Whale (B. bairdii) Hyperoodon Northern Bottlenose Whale (H. ampullatus) · Southern Bottlenose Whale (H. planifrons) Indopacetus Longman's Beaked Whale (I. pacificus) Mesoplodon (Mesoplodont whales) Sowerby's Beaked Whale (M. bidens) · Andrews' Beaked Whale (M. bowdoini) · Hubbs' Beaked Whale (M. carlhubbsi) · Blainville's Beaked Whale (M. densirostris) · Gervais' Beaked Whale (M. europaeus) · Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale (M. ginkgodens) · Gray's Beaked Whale (M. grayi) · Hector's Beaked Whale (M. hectori) · Layard's Beaked Whale (M. layardii) · True's Beaked Whale (M. mirus) · Pygmy Beaked Whale (M. peruvianus) · Perrin's Beaked Whale (M. perrini) · Stejneger's Beaked Whale (M. stejnegeri) · Spade-toothed Whale (M. traversii) Tasmacetus Shepherd's Beaked Whale (T. sheperdi) Ziphius Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Z. cavirostris)