Name - Megaptera Gray 1846

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1747286 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Megaptera

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Recent Publications

• A humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781), from the Pleistocene Kioroshi Formation of Inba-mura, Chiba Prefecture, central Japan.
• The fibrocartilage skeleton and related structures of the ventral pouch of balaenopterid whales.
• The mammals of Pakistan.

Search name in:

Sherborn Index Animalium

• Zool. Ereb. Terr. (Cetac.), 1846 1846: 16. [Index Animalium Entry]

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