Balaena boops Fabricius, 1780 Dataset GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Rank SPECIES Classification kingdom Animalia phylum Chordata class Mammalia order Cetacea family Balaenopteridae genus Megaptera species Megaptera novaeangliae Name Homonyms Balaena boops Linnaeus, 1758 Balaena boops Kerr, 1792 Balaena boops Fabricius, 1780