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Balaenopterinae (disused)
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) and Winge (1921); and to Balaenopteridae by Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Flower (1867), Gill (1871), 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) and Bisconti (2008).
It was reranked as the tribe Balaenopterini by Winge (1921).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Winge (1921); and to Balaenopteridae by Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Flower (1867), Gill (1871), 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) and Bisconti (2008).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 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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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Uhen 2004, Nowak 1991 | |||||