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Rorqualus edeni (Eden's whale)

Taxonomy
Balaenoptera edeni was named by Anderson (1879). It is extant. Its type locality is Thaybyoo Choung, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Rorqualus edeni by Hassanin et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Balaenoptera edeni Anderson
1904Balaenoptera edeni Trouessart p. 783
1950Balaenoptera edeni Junge p. 24
1963Balaenoptera edeni Scheffer and Rice p. 9
1977Balaenoptera edeni Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1991Balaenoptera edeni Vidal p. 6
2005Balaenoptera edeni Mead and Brownell p. 724
2008Balaenoptera edeni Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2012Rorqualus edeni Hassanin et al. p. 43 figs. Fig. 1

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