BALAENOPTERIDAE, Gray, 1864

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Balaenopteridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 242-299 : 242

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6598657
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scientific name	BALAENOPTERIDAE
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Family BALAENOPTERIDAE View in CoL

(RORQUALS)

• Extremely large baleen whales with streamlined bodies, longitudinally furrowed undersides, small dorsal fin, four-digit slender pectoral flippers, and broad propulsive caudal flukes; filterfeeding specialists.

• 750-3200 cm. View Figure

• Cosmopolitan, inhabiting all the world's oceans. View Figure

• (Coastal to pelagic waters from surface to depths greater than 300 m.

• 2 genera, 8 species, 13 taxa.

• 3 species. Endangered; none Extinct. since. 1600