Neobalaenidae Gray 1873
- Dataset
- Neobalaenidae
- Rank
- FAMILY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Neobalaenidae
diagnosis
• Smallest baleen whale with no throat grooves, long and narrow cream-to-white baleen having very fine bristles and dark outer margins, arched jaw line, and posterior ribs very broad and flat; all seven cervical vertebrae fused. • 590 - 650 cm. • Southern Hemisphere seas. • Pelagic and coastal waters, temperate to subantarctic. • 1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon. • No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
Name
- Homonyms
- Neobalaenidae Gray 1873
- Neobalaenidae
- Common names
- PYGMY RIGHT WHALE in Inglés