Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1864. Notes on the Whalebone-Whales; with a Synopsis of the Species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14:345-353
Parent taxon: Megaptera according to J. E. Gray 1864
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1977, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Bisconti 2008, Bisconti and Varola 2006, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Carroll 1988, Cope 1867, Cope 1868, Ekdale et al. 2011, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Fleming et al. 2022, Fraser and Purves 1960, Garrison et al. 2019, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gill 1871, Gol'din and Steeman 2015, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Kimura et al. 2018, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Palmer 1904, Rice 1998, Scammon and Cope 1869, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Sepkoski 2002, Steeman 2007, Tsai and Boessenecker 2015, Tsai et al. 2014, Uhen et al. 2008 and Vidal 1991
Sister taxa: Megaptera brachychira, Megaptera hubachi, Megaptera mysticetoides, Megaptera novaeangliae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Megaptera (Eschrichtius) in the database