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Taxon: Family Balaenidae Gray, 1821 - right whales (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (Gray, 1821) Gray, 1825
Original name Gray, 1821:310.
Subsequent rank 1825. Gray, 1825: 340.

Types

TypeBalaena (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

IncludingNeobalaenidae (Family) Gray, 1873 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameright whales Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 108.
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