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Pterobalaena acutorostrata (minke whale)

Taxonomy

Balaenoptera acutorostrata was named by Lacepede (1804). It is extant. Its type locality is Cherbourg, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in France. It is the type species of Pterobalaena.

It was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera rostrata by Van Beneden and Gervais (1880); it was recombined as Pterobalaena acutorostrata by Hassanin et al. (2012).

Sister species

P. bonaerensis

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Synonyms

Rorqualus boops was named by Cuvier (1836). It is extant.

It was recombined as Physalus (Rorqualus) boops by Gray (1847); it was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera acutorostrata by Hershkovitz (1966).
Sibbaldius mondinii was named by Capellini (1877). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera acutorostrata by Hershkovitz (1966).
Rorqualus minor was named by Hamilton (1837). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera rostrata by Van Beneden and Gervais (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera acutorostrata by Hershkovitz (1966).
Pterobalaena minor was named by Eschricht (1849). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera rostrata by Van Beneden and Gervais (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera acutorostrata by Hershkovitz (1966).
Balaena rostrata was named by Fabricius (1780). It is extant.

It was recombined as Rorqualus rostratus by De Kay (1842); it was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera physalus by Gray (1846); it was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera laticeps by Gray (1846); it was recombined as Balaenoptera rostrata by Gray (1850), Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Van Beneden and Gervais (1880), Trouessart (1904) and Turner (1912); it was synonymized subjectively with Balaenoptera acutorostrata by Hershkovitz (1966) and Mead and Brownell (2005).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1780	Balaena rostrata Fabricius p. 40
1804	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede p. 134
1804	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède
1822	Balaena rostrata Rudolphi pp. 27-40
1836	Balaena rostrata Cuvier p. 182
1836	Rorqualus boops Cuvier p. 321
1837	Rorqualus minor Hamilton p. 142
1842	Rorqualus rostratus De Kay p. 130
1847	Physalus (Rorqualus) boops Gray
1847	Balaena rostrata Nilsson p. 632
1849	Pterobalaena minor Eschricht p. 109
1850	Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 32
1864	Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 227
1865	Balaenoptera rostrata Flower p. 394
1866	Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 188
1868	Balaenoptera rostrata Gray p. 3
1877	Sibbaldius mondinii Capellini p. 423
1880	Balaenoptera rostrata Van Beneden and Gervais p. 149
1904	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Trouessart p. 783
1904	Balaenoptera rostrata Trouessart p. 783
1912	Balaenoptera rostrata Turner p. 59
1963	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Scheffer and Rice p. 9
1977	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1991	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Vidal p. 6
1998	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Rice p. 70
2005	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Mead and Brownell p. 724
2006	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Bouetel and Muizon p. 386
2008	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2008	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Uhen et al. p. 619
2008	Balaenoptera acutorostrata Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 243
2012	Pterobalaena acutorostrata Hassanin et al. p. 43 figs. Fig. 1

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