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Neobalaeninae (pygmy right whale)
Taxonomy
Neobalaenidae was named by Miller (1923). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Bisconti (2008).
It was reranked as the subfamily Neobalaeninae by Fordyce and Marx (2013), Tsai and Fordyce (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Marx et al. (2018) and Govender and Marx (2023).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Nowak (1991); to Mysticeti by Miller (1923), Barnes et al. (1985), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Rice (2002), Fordyce (2003) and Mead and Brownell (2005); to Mysticeti by Bouetel and Muizon (2006); to Balaenopteroidea by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Mysticeti by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Balaenoidea by Mitchell (1989), Sanders and Barnes (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Gingerich (2005), Steeman (2007), Bisconti (2008), Rice (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Bisconti (2012), Churchill et al. (2012) and Bisconti (2014); to Chaeomysticeti by Rice (1998) and Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015); to Plicogulae by Berta (2017); to Cetotherioidea by Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Goldin and Startsev (2017) and Gol'din (2018); and to Cetotheriidae by Fordyce and Marx (2013), Tsai and Fordyce (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Marx et al. (2018) and Govender and Marx (2023).
It was reranked as the subfamily Neobalaeninae by Fordyce and Marx (2013), Tsai and Fordyce (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Marx et al. (2018) and Govender and Marx (2023).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Nowak (1991); to Mysticeti by Miller (1923), Barnes et al. (1985), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Rice (2002), Fordyce (2003) and Mead and Brownell (2005); to Mysticeti by Bouetel and Muizon (2006); to Balaenopteroidea by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Mysticeti by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Balaenoidea by Mitchell (1989), Sanders and Barnes (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Gingerich (2005), Steeman (2007), Bisconti (2008), Rice (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Bisconti (2012), Churchill et al. (2012) and Bisconti (2014); to Chaeomysticeti by Rice (1998) and Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015); to Plicogulae by Berta (2017); to Cetotherioidea by Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Goldin and Startsev (2017) and Gol'din (2018); and to Cetotheriidae by Fordyce and Marx (2013), Tsai and Fordyce (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Marx et al. (2018) and Govender and Marx (2023).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1923 | Neobalaenidae Miller p. 40 |
| 1985 | Neobalaenidae Barnes et al. p. 26 |
| 1989 | Neobalaenidae Mitchell p. 2232 |
| 1991 | Neoballaenidae Nowak |
| 1994 | Neobalaenidae Fordyce and Barnes p. 428 figs. Table 1 |
| 1995 | Neobalaenidae Fordyce et al. p. 379 |
| 1998 | Neobalaenidae Rice |
| 2001 | Neobalaenidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 176 |
| 2002 | Neobalaenidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1 |
| 2002 | Neobalaenidae Sanders and Barnes p. 353 |
| 2003 | Neobalaenidae Fordyce p. 156 figs. Figure 9.1 |
| 2003 | Neobalaenidae Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2005 | Neobalaenidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1 |
| 2005 | Neobalaenidae Mead and Brownell p. 726 |
| 2006 | Neobalaenidae Bouetel and Muizon p. 387 |
| 2007 | Neobalaenidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2007 | Neobalaenidae Steeman p. 880 |
| 2008 | Neobalaenidae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 4.3 |
| 2008 | Neobalaenidae Bisconti p. 173 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2009 | Neobalaenidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1 |
| 2011 | Neobalaenidae Geisler et al. p. 132 |
| 2012 | Neobalaenidae Bisconti p. 879 |
| 2012 | Neobalaenidae Churchill et al. p. 12 |
| 2013 | Neobalaeninae Fordyce and Marx p. 4 |
| 2014 | Neobalaenidae Bisconti figs. Figure 4 |
| 2015 | Neobalaenidae Boessenecker and Fordyce figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Neobalaenidae Gol'din and Steeman p. 12 |
| 2015 | Neobalaeninae Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2015 | Neobalaeninae Tsai and Fordyce p. 2 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2016 | Neobalaeninae Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2017 | Neobalaenidae Berta p. 167 |
| 2017 | Neobalaenidae Goldin and Startsev figs. Fig. 10 |
| 2018 | Neobalaenidae Gol'din p. 23 figs. Fig. 14 |
| 2018 | Neobalaeninae Marx et al. p. 2 |
| 2023 | Neobalaeninae Govender and Marx p. 12 |
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Subfm. Neobalaeninae Miller 1923 [pygmy right whale]
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G. Caperea Gray 1864
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Caperea marginata Gray 1846 [pygmy right whale]
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Invalid names: Balaena (Caperea) antipodarum Gray 1864 [synonym]
Invalid names: Neobalaena Gray 1870 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available