Balaenoptera

Taxobox
name = "Balaenoptera"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Fin whale
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Cetacea
subordo = Mysticeti
familia = Balaenopteridae
subfamilia = Balaenopterinae
genus = "Balaenoptera"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="See text"

"Balaenoptera" is the largest genus of the Rorqual whales, containing eight species, including the recently discovered Balaenoptera omurai in 2003. The only rorqual whale which is currently not classified as a member of the genus "Balaenoptera" is the Humpback Whale, "Megaptera novaeangliae".

Taxonomy