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Balaenopterinae
Taxonomy
Balaenopterinae was named by Flower (1865). It is extant.
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); and to Balaenopteridae by Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Brandt (1874), Miller (1923), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Sanders and Barnes (2002), Bouetel and Muizon (2006) and Bisconti (2008).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); and to Balaenopteridae by Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Brandt (1874), Miller (1923), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Sanders and Barnes (2002), Bouetel and Muizon (2006) and Bisconti (2008).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1864 | Balaenopterinae Gray p. 203 |
| 1865 | Balaenopterinae Flower p. 391 |
| 1867 | Balaenopterinae Flower p. 115 |
| 1871 | Balaenopterinae Gill p. 125 |
| 1874 | Balaenopterinae Brandt p. I |
| 1887 | Balaenopterinae Lydekker p. 31 |
| 1898 | Balaenopterinae Trouessart p. 1069 |
| 1904 | Balaenopterinae Trouessart p. 779 |
| 1923 | Balaenopterinae Miller p. 40 |
| 1930 | Balaenopterinae Hay p. 573 |
| 1960 | Balaenopterinae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1985 | Balaenopterinae Barnes et al. p. 26 |
| 1991 | Balaenopterinae Vidal p. 6 |
| 1994 | Balaenopterinae Fordyce and Barnes p. 428 figs. Table 1 |
| 1995 | Balaenopterinae Fordyce et al. p. 379 |
| 1997 | Balaenopterinae McKenna and Bell p. 377 |
| 1998 | Balaenopterinae Rice p. 69 |
| 2002 | Balaenopterinae Sanders and Barnes p. 353 |
| 2006 | Balaenopterinae Bouetel and Muizon p. 386 |
| 2008 | Balaenopterinae Bisconti p. 174 |
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