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Balaenoptera edeni (Eden's whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Taxonomy
Balaenoptera edeni was named by Anderson (1879). It is extant. Its type locality is Thaybyoo Choung, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Rorqualus edeni by Hassanin et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Balaenoptera edeni Anderson
1904Balaenoptera edeni Trouessart p. 783
1950Balaenoptera edeni Junge p. 24
1963Balaenoptera edeni Scheffer and Rice p. 9
1977Balaenoptera edeni Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1991Balaenoptera edeni Vidal p. 6
2005Balaenoptera edeni Mead and Brownell p. 724
2008Balaenoptera edeni Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2011Balaenoptera edeni Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2012Rorqualus edeni Hassanin et al. p. 43 figs. Fig. 1
2014Balaenoptera edeni Tsai et al. p. 86
2017Balaenoptera edeni Tanaka and Taruno p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
Chaeomysticeti()
Balaenomorpha
superfamilyThalassotherii
familyBalaenopteridae
genusBalaenoptera
speciesedeniAnderson 1879

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.

Balaenoptera edeni Anderson 1879 [Eden's whale]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available