Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative spelling: Megapteridae
Full reference: W. H. Flower. 1865. Notes on the skeletons of whales in the principal museums of Holland and Belgium, with descriptions of two species apparently new to Science. 1864:384-420
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to M. Bisconti 2008
See also Barnes et al. 1985, Bergqvist et al. 1999, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Flower 1865, Flower 1867, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Gill 1871, Gray 1868, Gray 1870, Gray 1871, McKenna and Bell 1997, Miller 1923, Rice 1998, Sanders and Barnes 2002, Scott 1873 and Vidal 1991
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, Eschrichtiinae, Fragilicetus, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Notiocetus, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Megapterinae in the database