[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]
     Order Cetacea Brisson, 1762 - whales, dolphins, and porpoises see Infraorder Cetacea Brisson, 1762
       Family Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864 - rorquals
         Genus Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804 - rorquals
           1 Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 - minke whale
           2 Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 - Sei whale
           3 Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1879 - Bryde's whale
           4 Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) - blue whale
           5 Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) - fin whale