Taxonavigation

Familia: Balaenopteridae
Genera: †Archaebalaenoptera – Balaenoptera – †Diunatans – Megaptera – †Parabalaenoptera – †Plesiobalaenoptera – Pterobalaena – Rorqualus

Name

Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864

Typus: Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804

References

• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864. 203.
• Bisconti, M. 2007. A new basal balaenopterid from the Early Pliocene of northern Italy. Palaeontology 50: 1103–1122. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00696.x
• Bisconti, M. 2010. A new balaenopterid whale from the Late Miocene of the Stirone River, Northern Italy (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 943–958. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003762922
• Bosselaers, M. & Post, K. 2010. A new fossil rorqual (Mammalia, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae) from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea, with a review of the rorqual species described by Owen and Van Beneden. Geodiversitas 32: 331–363. PDF.
• Balaenopteridae in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Hassanin, A.; Delsuc, F.; Rpiquet, A.; Hammer, C.; Vuuren, B. J.; Matthee, C.; Ruiz-Garcia, M.; Gatzeflis, F.; Areskoug, V.; Nguyen, T. T.; Couloux, A. (2012). "Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 335 (1): 32–50. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2011.11.002. PMID 22226162.

Vernacular names

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