Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative combination: Pterobalaena bonaerensis
Synonyms: Balaenoptera bonaerensis huttoni Gray 1874, Balaenoptera huttoni Gray 1874
Belongs to Balaenoptera according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Ameghino 1889, Hassanin et al. 2012, Hershkovitz 1966, Marx 2011, Mead and Brownell 2005, Rice 1998, Scott 1873 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Balaenoptera andrejewi, Balaenoptera borealis, Balaenoptera brydei, Balaenoptera cephalus, Balaenoptera davidsonii, Balaenoptera edeni, Balaenoptera fasciata, Balaenoptera grimmi, Balaenoptera musculus, Balaenoptera omurai, Balaenoptera physalus, Balaenoptera ricei, Balaenoptera ryani, Balaenoptera siberi, Balaenoptera sursiplana
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Baie de Kouaoua (Quaternary of New Caledonia)
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