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Taxon: Suborder Mysticeti Cope, 1891 - baleen whales (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name Gray, J.E. 1864. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 198 ("Sect. I. Mysticete"). (sub "Suborder I. Cete").
Subsequent rank Flower, W.H. 1864. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 388 ("Balænoidea or Mysticete"), 395 ("Suborder", "Balænoidea seu Mysticete").
Subsequent spelling Cope, 1891: 69.
Source for the authorship of the name McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. 1997. Classif. Mamm.: 374 ("Cope, 1891:69").
Not Source for the authorship of the name Mead, J.G. & Brownell Jr., R.L. 2005. In Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) Mammal Species of the World, Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: [723] ("Flower, 1864").
Subsequent publication Flower, W.H. 1869[1867]. Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 6 (3) (art. 4): 110 ("Mystacoceti or Balænoidea"), 115.

Variants

Subsequent rankMysticeti (Parvorder) Cope, 1891 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 374 (note 1). [new]
Different rankMysticeta (Order) Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1036.
Former rankMysticeti (Parvorder) Cope, 1891
Different spellingMystacoceti (Suborder) (Flower, 1867)

Synonyms

Synonymous nameCrenaticeti (Infraorder) Mitchell, 1989 Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous nameMysticete (Suborder) (Gray, 1864) Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namebaleinwalvissen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namebaleen whales
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