Balaenoptera
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Balaenoptera is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. Balaenoptera comprises all but two of the extant species in its family; the genus is currently polyphyletic, with the two aforement
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Fossil of Balaenoptera acutorostrata cuvieri from the Pliocene of Italy
Aetiocetus BW
Janjucetus NT small
Common minke whale
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The common minke whale or northern minke whale is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales.
Balaenoptera
…The genus Balaenoptera contains the following extant species and subspecies: Common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) North Atlantic minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) North Pacific minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata…
SBNMS Minke Whale Breach
Minke whale in the Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park, showing the blowholes and dorsal fin at the same time
Minke whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence showing scars perhaps caused by killer whales