Bryde's whale (/ˈbrʊdəz/ BRUU-dəz), or the Bryde's whale complex, putatively comprises three species of rorqual and maybe four. The "complex" means the...
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Blue whale (redirect from Sibbald's rorqual)
as the common name in 1874. Blue whales were referred to as "Sibbald's rorqual", after Robert Sibbald, who first described the species. Whalers sometimes...
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Fin whale (redirect from Common rorqual)
species. Fin whales are rorquals, members of the family Balaenopteridae, which includes the humpback whale, the blue whale, Bryde's whale, the sei whale...
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comprises the families Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae (the gray whale) and Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale)...
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Minke whale (redirect from Lesser Rorqual)
All minke whales are part of the rorquals, a family that includes the humpback whale, the fin whale, the Bryde's whale, the sei whale and the blue whale...
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Rice's whale (redirect from Gulf of Mexico Bryde's whale)
clade that forms a polytomy with the sei whale and Bryde's whale. It is an intermediate-sized rorqual that is usually about the same size as the Eden's...
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borealis. Sei whales are rorquals (family Balaenopteridae), baleen whales that include the humpback whale, the blue whale, Bryde's whale, the fin whale,...
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Balaenoptera (category Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède)
Latin balaena 'whale' and Ancient Greek πτερά (pterá) 'fin') is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. Balaenoptera comprises all but two of...
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New England. Humpback whales are rorquals, members of the Balaenopteridae family, which includes the blue, fin, Bryde's, sei and minke whales. A 2018 genomic...
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"Rorqual commun // Fin whale". cetaces.org (in French). Del Mar Otero, María; Conigliaro, Michela (2012). "Mammifères marins et tortues marines de la...
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