Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative spellings: Eschrichtinae, Eschrichtinae
Full reference: J. R. Ellerman and T. C. S. Morrisson-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946 1-810
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015
See also Fraser and Purves 1960 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Archaebalaenoptera, Balaena affinis, Balaena definata, Balaena emarginata, Balaena gibbosa, Balaenoptera, Balaenoptera borealina, Balaenoptera musculoides, Balaenoptera portisii, Balaenoptera rostratella, Balaenoptera sibbaldina, Balaenoptera taiwanica, Balaenopterinae, Cetotheriophanes, Delphinus brachyspondylus, Diunatans, Eobalaenoptera, Fragilicetus, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapterinae, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus
Subtaxa: Eschrichtinae
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Eschrichtiinae in the database