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Balaenidae (/bəˈlɛnɪdeɪ, -diː/) is a
family of
whales of the
parvorder Mysticeti (baleen whales) that
contains mostly fossil taxa and two
living genera:...
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planktonic creatures from the water.
Mysticeti comprises the
families Balaenidae (right and
bowhead whales),
Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae...
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Balaena is a
genus of
cetacean (whale) in the
family Balaenidae.
Balaena is
considered a
monotypic genus, as it has only a
single extant species, the bowhead...
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Southern right whale (E. australis). They are
classified in the
family Balaenidae with the
bowhead whale.
Right whales have
rotund bodies with
arching rostrums...
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Marine mammals comprise over 130
living and
recently extinct species in
three taxonomic orders. The
Society for
Marine Mammalogy, an
international scientific...
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include four
extant (living) families:
Balaenopteridae (the rorquals),
Balaenidae (right whales),
Cetotheriidae (the
pygmy right whale), and Eschrichtiidae...
- (Balaena mysticetus) is a
species of
baleen whale belonging to the
family Balaenidae and is the only
living representative of the
genus Balaena. It is the...
- Camelidae, the
camels and llamas; and
Whippomorpha contains fourteen,
Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Cetotheriidae, Delphinidae, Iniidae, Kogiidae, Lipotidae...
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based on
morphological data, it to be more
closely related to
Balaenidae (the
bowhead and
right whales), but
added that
additional specimens are...
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having baleen plates for
filter feeding and two blowholes. The
family Balaenidae, the
right whales,
contains two
genera and four species. All
right whales...
