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Balaenidae

Balaenidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
Suborder: Mysticeti
Family: Balaenidae
Gray, 1821
Range of the Balaenidae species
Range of the Balaenidae species
Genera

Balaena
Eubalaena

Balaenidae is a family of cetaceans that contains two genera. Commonly called the right whales as it contains mainly right whale species. This name can be confusing, however, since one of the species is the Bowhead Whale, which is different to the Right whale.

Taxonomy

  • Family Balaenidae
Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises)
Suborder Mysticeti
(baleen whales)

Eschrichtiidae (gray whales) · Balaenopteridae (rorquals) · Balaenidae (right whales) · Neobalaenidae (pygmy right whales)

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Suborder Odontoceti
(toothed whales)

Platanistoidea (river dolphins) · Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins) · Phocoenidae (porpoises) · Monodontidae (beluga and narwhal) · Physeteridae (sperm whales) · Kogiidae (pygmy and dwarf sperm whales) · Ziphiidae (beaked whales)

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