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Taxonomy
Balaenoidea was named by Flower (1865). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Gill (1873).
It was synonymized subjectively with Mysticete by Gill (1873); it was misspelled as Balaenoidae by Hay (1930) and Mitchell (1989); it was considered a nomen dubium by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Mysticete by Gray (1868); to Mysticete by Hay (1930); to Mysticeti by Sanders and Barnes (2002), Bisconti (2003) and Gingerich (2005); to Mysticeti by Bianucci and Landini (2007) and Rice (2009); to Chaeomysticeti by Mitchell (1989), Steeman (2007), Bisconti (2008), Steeman (2010) and Bisconti (2012); and to Balaenomorpha by Geisler and Sanders (2003) and Bisconti et al. (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Mysticete by Gill (1873); it was misspelled as Balaenoidae by Hay (1930) and Mitchell (1989); it was considered a nomen dubium by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Mysticete by Gray (1868); to Mysticete by Hay (1930); to Mysticeti by Sanders and Barnes (2002), Bisconti (2003) and Gingerich (2005); to Mysticeti by Bianucci and Landini (2007) and Rice (2009); to Chaeomysticeti by Mitchell (1989), Steeman (2007), Bisconti (2008), Steeman (2010) and Bisconti (2012); and to Balaenomorpha by Geisler and Sanders (2003) and Bisconti et al. (2017).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1865 | Balaenoidea Flower p. 388 |
| 1868 | Balaenoidea Gray p. 1 |
| 1930 | Balaenoidae Hay p. 573 |
| 1989 | Balaenoidea Mitchell p. 2231 |
| 2002 | Balaenoidea Sanders and Barnes p. 353 |
| 2003 | Balaenoidea Bisconti p. 2003 |
| 2003 | Balaenoidea Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2005 | Balaenoidea Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1 |
| 2007 | Balaenoidea Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2007 | Balaenoidea Steeman p. 880 |
| 2008 | Balaenoidea Bisconti p. 173 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2009 | Balaenoidea Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1 |
| 2010 | Balaenoidea Steeman p. 75 |
| 2012 | Balaenoidea Bisconti p. 879 |
| 2017 | Balaenoidea Bisconti et al. p. 7 |
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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.
Superfm. Balaenoidea Flower 1865
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Fm. Balaenidae Gray 1821 [right whale]
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G. Balaena Linnaeus 1758 [bowhead whale]
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†Balaena arcuata Boitard 1844
†Balaena dubusi Van Beneden 1872
†Balaena larteti Van Beneden 1882
†Balaena macrocephalus Desmoulins 1822
†Balaena meneghinii Capellini 1876
†Balaena montalionis Capellini 1904
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus 1758 [bowhead whale]
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Balaena mysticetus pittekajensis Trouessart 1904
Balaena mysticetus roysii Dall 1874
Balaena vulgaris groenlandica Brisson 1762
Invalid names: Balaena prisca Nilsson 1847 [synonym], Balaena vulgaris Brisson 1762 [synonym]
†Balaena pampaea Ameghino 1891
†Balaena ricei Westgate and Whitmore 2002
Invalid names: Balaena balsami Cornalia 1870 [nomen nudum], Balaena molassica Bronn 1837 [nomen dubium], Balaena tannenbergii Rathke 1837 [nomen dubium]
G. †Balaenotus Van Beneden 1872
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†Balaenotus insignis Van Beneden 1872
†Balaenotus lawleyi Capellini 1876
†Balaenotus orcianensis Pilleri 1987
G. †Balaenula Van Beneden 1872
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†Balaenula astensis Trevisan 1942
†Balaenula balaenopsis Van Beneden 1872
†Balaenula forsythmajori Pilleri 1987
Invalid names: Balaenula praediolensis Cuscani Politi 1961 [invalid subgroup]
G. Eubalaena Gray 1864 [right whale]
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Eubalaena australis Desmoulins 1822 [southern right whale]
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Invalid names: Balaena antarctica Lesson 1828 [synonym], Balaena antipodarum Gray 1843 [synonym]
Eubalaena glacialis Muller 1776 [North Atlantic right whale]
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†Balaena glacialis lamanoni Cuvier 1836
Eubalaena glacialis glacialis Tomlin 1957
Invalid names: Balaena aleoutiensis Van Beneden 1866 [synonym], Balaena biscayensis Eschricht 1860 [synonym], Balaena islandica Brisson 1762 [synonym], Balaena nordcaper Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Balaena swedenborgi Lilljeborg 1868 [synonym], Balaena tarentina Capellini 1877 [synonym], Eubalaena sieboldii Gray 1864 [synonym], Halibalaena britannica Gray 1870 [synonym], Hunterius temminckii Gray 1864 [synonym], Macleayius australiensis Gray 1866 [synonym]
†Eubalaena ianitrix Bisconti et al. 2017
†Eubalaena shinshuensis Kimura et al. 2007
Invalid names: Halibalaena Gray 1873 [synonym], Hunterius Flower 1864 [synonym], Macleayius Gray 1864 [synonym]
G. †Idiocetus Capellini 1876
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†Idiocetus guicciardinii Capellini 1876
Invalid names: Idiocetus tsugarensis Matsumoto 1926 [nomen dubium]
Invalid names: Balaena belgica Abel 1941 [nomen dubium], Balaena dubia Bravard 1858 [nomen dubium], Balaena etrusca Capellini 1872 [nomen nudum], Balaena paronai Del Prato 1900 [nomen nudum], Balaena primigenius Van Beneden 1872 [nomen nudum], Balaeninae Flower 1867 [empty], Balaenini Gray 1825 [empty], Eucetites Ameghino 1901 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available