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Balaenopterinae (disused)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Taxonomy

Balaenopterinae was named by Flower (1865). It is extant.

It was reranked as the tribe Balaenopterini by Winge (1921).

It was assigned to Balaenidae by Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Winge (1921); and to Balaenopteridae by Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Brandt (1874), Brandt (1874), Miller (1923), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Sanders and Barnes (2002), Bouetel and Muizon (2006), Bisconti (2008).

Synonyms

Physalina was named by Gray (1864). It is extant.

It was reranked as the family Physalinidae by Gray (1868); it was reranked as the family Physalidae by Gray (1870), Gray (1871); it was synonymized subjectively with Balaenopterinae by McKenna and Bell (1997).

It was assigned to Balaenopteridae by Gray (1864); to Mysticeti by Gray (1870); and to Balaenopteroidea by Gray (1868), Gray (1871).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1864	Balaenopterinae Gray p. 203
1864	Physalina Gray p. 211
1865	Balaenopterinae Flower p. 391
1867	Balaenopterinae Flower p. 115
1868	Physalinidae Gray p. 2
1870	Physalidae Gray p. 195
1871	Balaenopterinae Gill p. 125
1871	Physalidae Gray p. 52
1874	Balaenopterinae Brandt p. I
1887	Balaenopterinae Lydekker p. 31
1898	Balaenopterinae Trouessart p. 1069
1904	Balaenopterinae Trouessart p. 779
1921	Balaenopterini Winge p. 7
1923	Balaenopterinae Miller p. 40
1930	Balaenopterinae Hay p. 573
1960	Balaenopterinae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1985	Balaenopterinae Barnes et al. p. 26
1991	Balaenopterinae Vidal p. 6
1994	Balaenopterinae Fordyce and Barnes p. 428 figs. Table 1
1995	Balaenopterinae Fordyce et al. p. 379
1997	Balaenopterinae McKenna and Bell p. 377
1998	Balaenopterinae Rice p. 69
1999	Balaenopterinae Bergqvist et al. p. 31
2002	Balaenopterinae Sanders and Barnes p. 353
2006	Balaenopterinae Bouetel and Muizon p. 386
2008	Balaenopterinae Bisconti p. 174

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Artiodactylamorpha
—	Artiodactyla	()
—	Whippomorpha
order	Cetacea
—	Pelagiceti
—	Neoceti
suborder	Mysticeti
—	Chaeomysticeti	()
—	Balaenomorpha
superfamily	Thalassotherii
family	Balaenopteridae
subfamily	Balaenopterinae
subfamily	Balaenopterinae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Balaenopterinae Flower 1865

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Invalid names: Physalina Gray 1864 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available