Balaenidae[1] Rentang waktu: Miosen sampai masa kini
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Dua balaenid yang masih hidup, Balaena mysticetus (kanan) dan Eubalaena australis (kiri) | |
Klasifikasi ilmiah ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kerajaan: | Animalia |
Filum: | Chordata |
Kelas: | Mammalia |
Ordo: | Artiodactyla |
Infraordo: | Cetacea |
Parvordo: | Mysticeti |
Famili: | Balaenidae Gray, 1821 |
Genus tipe | |
Balaena Linnaeus, 1758
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Genera | |
Balaena |
Balaenidae (/bəˈlɛnɪdeɪ, -diː/) adalah sebuah famili paus pada parvordo Mysticeti (paus balin), yang mencakup kebanyakan takson fosil dan dua genera yang masih hidup: paus sikat (genus Eubalaena) dan paus kepala busur (genus Balaena) yang berkerabat dekat.[3][4]
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Although Rice believed that all right whales belong with the bowhead in the genus Balaena, recent genetic analysis have recognized three separate right whale species, in the genus Eubalaena: in the North Atlantic (E. glacialis); in the North Atlantic (E. japonica); and in the Southern Hemisphere (E. australis).
The study by Churchill (2007) now has provided the evidence to conclude that the three living right whale species do comprise a phylogenetic lineage distinct from the bowhead and are rightly classified into a separate genus.