Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative combination: Rorqualus omurai
Full reference: S. Wada. 2003. A newly discovered species of living baleen whale. Nature 426:278-281
Belongs to Balaenoptera according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Hassanin et al. 2012, Marx 2011, Mead and Brownell 2005, Tsai et al. 2014 and Wada 2003
Sister taxa: Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Balaenoptera andrejewi, Balaenoptera bonaerensis, Balaenoptera borealis, Balaenoptera brydei, Balaenoptera cephalus, Balaenoptera davidsonii, Balaenoptera edeni, Balaenoptera fasciata, Balaenoptera grimmi, Balaenoptera musculus, Balaenoptera physalus, Balaenoptera ricei, Balaenoptera ryani, Balaenoptera siberi, Balaenoptera sursiplana
Type specimen: NSMT-M32505, an other
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Tsunoshima Island (Quaternary of Japan)
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