Name - Balaenidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:19164 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Balaenidae Gray 1825

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• First Record of a Right Whale Fossil Radius from the Pre-Historic Period of Japan.
• Investigation of Whalebone from the Miocene Kovran Locality (Kamchatka Krai, Russia).
• Lipid-loss in blubber biopsies is universal in cetaceans highlighting a need for new health assessment measures.
• The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting.
• Taphonomy, osteology and functional morphology of a partially articulated skeleton of an archaic Pliocene right whale from Emilia Romagna (NW Italy).

Search name in:

back