Balaenoptera

Balaenoptera Lacepede, 1804

Balaenoptera Lacepede, 1804; Hist. Nat. Cetacees.: 36, 114; TS: Balaenoptera gibbar Lacépède
Sibbaldus Gray, 1864; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1864 (2): 222; TS: Sibbaldus borealis Gray

Balaenoptera; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 subtropical to arctic waters Lahtivalas Piked Whale Lesser Rorqual
- Balaenoptera acuto-rostrata Lacepede, 1804; Hist. Nat. Cetacees.: 37, 134; TL: France, Cherbourg, Mancha
- bonaerensis
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata scammoni; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera bonaerensis; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 subtropical to subarctic waters Pollack Whale Sei Seitivalas
- Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828; Compl. Oeuvres Buffon Hist. Nat., 1: 342; TL: Gromitz, Lübeck Bay, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Balaenoptera borealis borealis; [CoL]
- Balaenoptera borealis schlegelii; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera borealis; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878 temperate to tropical waters
- Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878; Anat. Zool. Res.: 551; TL: Burma, Tenasserim, between mouths of Sittang and Bilin R., Thayboo Choung
- Balaenoptera edeni brydei; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera edeni edeni; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera edeni; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) World-wide, Southern Hemisphere Sibbald's Rorqual Sulphur-bottom Whale Sinivalas Blue Whale
- Balaena musculus Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 76; TL: Firth of Forth, Scotland
- Physalus sibbaldii Gray
- Sibbaldus borealis Gray
- Balaenoptera borealis borealis; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera musculus indica; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera musculus intermedia; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera musculus musculus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera musculus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) World-wide Razorback Common Rorqual Common Finback Whale Finner Whale Sillivalas
- Balaena physalus Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 75; TL: Spitzbergen Seas
- Balaenoptera gibbar Lacépède, 1804
- Balaenoptera physalus physalus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera physalus quoyi; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
- Balaenoptera physalus velifera; [CoL]
- Balaenoptera physalus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Unmatched external taxa

Balaenoptera brydei; [iNaturalist]
Balaenoptera omurai; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Balaenoptera ricei; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

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References:

[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist

Some related literature:

Linnaeus, 1758
Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 1-338, : 339-824
Gray, 1864
On the Cetacea wich have been observed in the Seas surrounding the British Islands Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1864 (2) : 195-248
Lesson, 1828
Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mammifères et des oiseaux découverts depuis 1788 jusqu`a nos jours, ... , Complément 2, 1: Cétacés, Table méthodique Compl. Oeuvres Buffon Hist. Nat., 1: 2016,342,441

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