Balaenoptera
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Balaenoptera is the largest genus of the Rorqual whales, containing 8 species including the recently discovered Balaenoptera omurai. The only rorqual whale which is not found in the Balaenoptera genera is the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae.
[edit] Taxonomy
- Genus Balaenoptera
- Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus
- Sei Whale, Balaenoptera borealis
- Bryde's Whale, Balaenoptera brydei
- Pygmy Bryde's Whale, (Eden's Whale) Balaenoptera edeni
- Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus
- Northern Minke Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
- Southern Minke Whale, (Antarctic Minke Whale) Balaenoptera bonaerensis
- Balaenoptera omurai, discovery announced November 2003. No common name yet in usage
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