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Monotypic taxon: Genus Eschrichtius Gray, 1864 - gray whale (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (Gray, 1864) Gray, 1865
Original name Gray, 1864:350.
Subsequent rank 1865. Gray, 1865

Types

Type ofEschrichtiinae (Subfamily) Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 378. [new] [inferred]
Type, by original designationEschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861)

Synonyms

Synonymous nameAgaphelus (Genus) Cope, 1868 Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous nameCyphonotus (Genus) Rafinesque, 1815, nom. nud. Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous nameRhachianectes (Genus) Cope, 1869 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 122.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namegray whale
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